Francisco de Goya

Confidence

Clasificación
Confidence
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
197 x 141 mm
Técnica y soporte
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
24 Aug 2021 / 09 May 2023
Inventario
D3956
Inscripciones

Confidence (in pencil, lower right).

Watermark: [Shield with helmet, bird inside, and underneath "D.N J.PH GISBERT / ALCOY"] (lower half)

Historia

The drawing passed by inheritance in 1828 to Javier Goya, the painter's son, and in 1854 to Mariano Goya y Goicoechea, the artist's grandson. It was subsequently owned by Valentín Carderera (ca. 1861) and Mariano Carderera (ca. 1880). In 1886 it was acquired from Mariano Carderera by the General Direction of Public Instruction and was assigned to the Prado Museum, where it entered on 12 November 1886.

Análisis artístico

Goya was always fascinated by amorous relationships between women. In this drawing, two women dressed in lock-suits are engaged in opening or closing locks on each other. Their faces cannot be seen, as they cover their heads with hoods, perhaps in allusion to the furtiveness and prohibition of their relationship.

According to Gassier, this is a theme with a strangely erotic symbolism. In a number of contemporary and later drawings, the painter depicted the woman wearing a kind of armour or dress full of locks, but almost always with a man trying to open them, hence the boldness and modernity of this drawing, which goes much further in its pretensions and is the first and probably the only time Goya treated this theme from this exclusively female perspective and in such an open manner. In fact, this excessive boldness, scandalous for the time, must have been the reason why this drawing, probably preparatory for the Caprices, was never engraved or included in the edition of the Caprices.

Exposiciones
  • Goya. Gemälde Zeichnungen. Graphik. Tapisserien
    Kunsthalle Basel
    Basle
    1953
    from January 23th to April 12th 1953
  • Los dibujos de Goya
    Museo Provincial de Zaragoza
    Zaragoza
    1978
    exhibition organized by Museo Provincial de Zaragoza, Ministerio de Cultura and Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, exhibition guide written by Miguel Beltrán Lloris and Micaela Pérez Sáenz. October 1978
  • Europa 1789. Aufklärung, Verklärung, Verfall
    Hamburger Kunsthalle
    Hamburg
    1989
  • Goya. El cuaderno italiano
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1994
  • Santander
    2017
Bibliografía
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 213
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 187, cat. 656
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 499, cat. 328
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    El mundo de Goya en sus dibujos
    MadridUrbión
    1979
    pp. 121-122
  • HOFMANN, Werner (ed.)
    Goya, Das Zeitalter de Revolutionen. 1789-1830
    HamburgPrestel-Verlag Münche und Hamburger Kunsthalle
    1980
    p. 334
  • MENA, Manuela B. y URREA, Jesús
    MadridFundación Amigos del Museo del Prado
    2008
  • BROWN, Jonathan y GALASSI, Susan Grace
    Goya's last works
    New YorkThe Frick Collection and Yale University Press
    2006
    pp. 195-197, cat. 34
  • MATILLA, José Manuel y MENA, Manuela B.
    SantanderFundación Botín y Museo Nacional del Prado
    2017
    p. 38
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