Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1778 - 1779
Ubicación
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Dimensiones
277 x 188 mm
Técnica y soporte
Sanguine on laid paper
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Ficha: realización/revisión
05 Jul 2021 / 01 Jun 2023
Inventario
Inv. 38543
Inscripciones

Velazquez [in pen, lower left]

Goya. [in pen, lower right]

Historia

See Philip  III.

Análisis artístico

Faithfully following the canvas painted by Diego Velazquez around 1632-1634, now in the Museo Nacional del Prado, Goya drew Philip IV, hunter in red pencil. As in the original work, the king stands before a countryside landscape. He is dressed as a hunter and wears a tabard or wide waistcoat over his costume. His head is adorned with a cap, his neck with lace and his hands with gloves. In his right hand he holds a shotgun. The monarch is accompanied by a mastiff hunting dog, to which Velazquez gave great prominence. Behind the figure of the king, a tree completes the composition.

Goya attempted to depict Velazquez's work as faithfully as possible, even drawing the details of the king's clothing, such as the filigree of the sleeve, the lace of the shirt collar and the embroidery of the jacket, and the regrets that can be seen in the painting on the king's left leg. However, he did not depict in detail the wooded, rocky landscape that appears in the background on the right of the composition, but limited himself to making a small sketch of it.

The Aragonese painter was able to capture the haughty air of the monarch in his face as he did in the rest of the royal representations based on works by Velázquez. The light and shade are also treated in this drawing, leaving the area on the left darker to the detriment of the right, which is much cleaner and brighter, as in Velázquez's oil painting.

This drawing, unlike The Water Carrier of Seville, has no evidence of engraving. It is one of what Gassier-Wilson called additional drawings: five drawings copied from works by Velazquez to be engraved but for which no proof of condition is known. All of them are in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, along with others from the series that were engraved. Apart from the present one, these drawings are: The Water Carrier of Seville; Prince Balthasar Charles, hunter; The Child of Vallecas and The Infant Charles of Austria.

Exposiciones
  • Hamburg
    1966
  • Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)
    Hamburger Kunsthalle
    Hamburg
    1980
  • Goya und Velazquez: das königliche Portrait,
    Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut
    Frankfurt
    1991
  • Velázquez en blanco y negro
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    2000
    Curator: José Manuel Matilla
  • Goya: Prophet der Moderne
    Alte Nationalgalerie
    Berlin
    2005
    from July 13th to October 3th 2005. Exhibitied also at the Kunsthistorischemuseum, Vienna, October 18th 2005 to January 8th 2006, consultant editor Manuela B. Mena Marqués
  • Madrid
    2019
Bibliografía
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    pp. 48, 49, 50 y 88, cat. 115.
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 68 (il.), cat. 34.
  • MATILLA, José Manuel (comisario)
    Velázquez en blanco y negro
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    2000
    p. 227.
  • VEGA, Jesusa
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    2000
    pp. 25-74, espec. pp. 41, 43 y 57.
  • MATILLA, José Manuel y MENA, Manuela B.
    SantanderFundación Botín y Museo Nacional del Prado
    2018
    pp. 433-435.
  • MATILLA, José Manuel y MENA, Manuela B. (comisarios)
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    2019
    p. 72
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