Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
210 x 137 mm
Técnica y soporte
Aguada roja, trazos de lápiz negro sobre papel
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
24 Nov 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
Inventario
(D. 4232)
Inscripciones

44 (in composite pencil. Lower left corner, second support)

94 (in composite pencil. Lower part, reverse, second support)

Historia

On the origin of this and other preparatory drawings for The Caprices, see the commentary on the first of them, corresponding to Caprice number 1 (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, painter), and on the one corresponding to Caprice 3 (The bogeyman is Coming).

Line of provenance of this drawing: Javier Goya; Mariano Goya, 1854; Valentín Carderera, ca. 1861; Mariano Carderera, 1880; Prado Museum, 1886.

Análisis artístico

The Caprice They Are Warm was inspired by the image in the Madrid Notebook or Notebook B Merry Caricature (B.63). The subject matter and composition are already quite clearly outlined in the drawing entitled Dream of Men Eating Us (25th dream) and are definitively defined in the preparatory drawing we are dealing with here.

Goya has sketched the arch in the background of the scene, the figure in profile in the foreground, the table around which the clerics are gathered and the three figures in the background in a pyramidal arrangement. From the drawing in Notebook B to the final result, there is a gradual intensification of the ferocity in the faces, which become increasingly cadaverous, with sunken eyes and emaciated faces. Likewise, with respect to Dream, it is evident that the table is gradually more essential and the number of objects on it is reduced.

Exposiciones
  • Goya. La década de Los Caprichos
    Madrid
    1992
    organized by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando sponsored by Fundación Central Hispano, Madrid, consultant editor Nigel Glendinnig. From October 26th 1992 to January 10th 1993
  • Goya luces y sombras
    CaixaForum
    Barcelona
    2012
    consultant editors José Manuel Matilla and Manuela B. Marqués. From March 16th to June 24th 2012
  • Madrid
    2019
Bibliografía
  • D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
    Roma D.Anderson: Editeur
    1908
    p. 19, n. 13
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    p. 74
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
    Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    p. 191, fig. 111
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 22
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 177, cat. 478
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    cat. 13
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Los Caprichos de Goya
    col. Serie punto y línea
    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    p. 33
  • WILSON-BAREU, Juliet
    MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
    1992
    p.248, cat. 150
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    El libro de los caprichos: dos siglos de interpretaciones (1799-1999). Catálogo de los dibujos, pruebas de estado, láminas de cobre y estampas de la primera edición
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    p. 113
  • MATILLA, José Manuel y MENA, Manuela B. (comisarios)
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    2019
    p. 116
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