Francisco de Goya

The woman and the guitar player flying

Clasificación
The woman and the guitar player flying
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
205 x 143 mm
Técnica y soporte
Sanguine on laid paper
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
20 Aug 2021 / 19 Apr 2023
Inventario
D3935
Inscripciones

52 (in pencil, upper left-hand corner)

6 (in pencil, lower left corner)

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

This preparatory drawing for the Caprices was never engraved, probably because Goya was not very satisfied with the result. In fact, technically it does not have the quality of other drawings made for later engravings.

In the work, a young man dressed in a cloak and holding a guitar appears flying, while playing and singing, in front of a demure seated girl wearing a long skirt and a cloak covering her hair. The piece could be related to the drawing in Notebook F entitled Religious Woman Frightened by a Ghost, in which a ghost with a guitar appears to a nun.

Conservación

Work restored with paper reintegration in several areas with losses, mainly in the lower and right edges.

Bibliografía
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 200
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 186, cat. 632
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 173, cat. 136
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    MadridSilex
    1980
    pp. 116-117
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    p. 95
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