- Cronología
- 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 191 x 132 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 20 Aug 2021 / 09 May 2023
- Inventario
- D3959
Watermark: Josep Gisbert, shield with helmet, bird inside, and underneath "D.N J.PH GISBERT / ALCOY" (lower half).
By inheritance it passed 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 successively by Valentín Carderera (ca. 1861) and Mariano Carderera (ca. 1880). In 1886 it was acquired from Mariano Carderera by the Directorate General of Public Instruction and was assigned to the Prado Museum, where it is now located.
See Woman / Snake
As in the drawing entitled Dandy / Monkey, a fop is the protagonist of the scene. In this case, the image reflected in the mirror is of a woman tortured by means of iron rings attached to her neck and waist and fastened to the wall with thick chains. The young man looks sideways at the mirror without giving much importance to the cruelty that is reflected back at him. Through the tortured woman, Goya may have wanted to symbolise the slavery of fashion, that is, the torture for the dapper young man of always having to be concerned with being fashionable.
Of the entire series known as Magic Mirror, only this drawing has an obvious chiaroscuro effect, although it broadly retains the masterly, modern abbreviated technique of the rest of the series.
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Goya. Gemälde Zeichnungen. Graphik. TapisserienKunsthalle BaselBasle1953from January 23th to April 12th 1953
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Los dibujos de GoyaMuseo Provincial de ZaragozaZaragoza1978exhibition 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 1978cat. 48
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Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)Hamburger KunsthalleHamburg1980cat. 50
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Goya y el Mundo ModernoMuseo de ZaragozaZaragoza2008organized by the Fundación Goya en Aragón at the Museo de Zaragoza, consultant editors Valeriano Bozal and Concepción Lomba Serrano. From December 18th 2008 to March 22nd 2009cat. 30
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Goya, Saturno y melancolía. Consideraciones sobre el arte de GoyaStockholmAlquimis & Wiksell1962pp. 94-115
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 187, cat. 651
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 491, cat. 323
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Goya, Das Zeitalter de Revolutionen. 1789-1830HamburgPrestel-Verlag Münche und Hamburger Kunsthalle1980p. 103
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Calcografía Nacional y National Museum of Contemporary Arts de Seúl2000pp. 171-179
