Francisco de Goya

What a tailor can do!

Clasificación
What a tailor can do!
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
238 x 163 mm
Técnica y soporte
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
13 Sep 2022 / 27 Jun 2023
Inventario
D3952
Inscripciones

49 (in pencil. recto, upper right-hand corner)

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

4 (in blue pencil. Centre of reverse, second support)

7 // 64 (in composite pencil. Upper left, second mount)

Watermark: H.C. Wend & Zoonen [Large shield with helmet and letters "H -- C / W" inside].

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

Preparatory drawing for Caprice 52. What a tailor can do!  In this scene, Goya covers the trunk of a tree with clerical vestments, recreating a preacher in one of his most common postures, with his arms wide open. His head is covered with a hood and before him kneels a praying woman, behind whom a grimacing audience can be seen. Goya criticises and censures the tendency of the Church to fill its temples with images that incite superstition and the decadence of education, according to Matilla.

Not only the composition of the drawing and that of the print are identical, but also the distribution of light and shade. Thanks to the red wash, Goya was able to achieve the same effects as with aquatint.

It is stamped with the imprint left by the pressure of the press during the process of tracing the drawing onto the copper plate, 218 x 152 mm.

Exposiciones
  • Goya y la Constitución de 1812
    Museo Municipal de Madrid
    Madrid
    1982
    organized by Madrid Town Hall, consultant editor José Manuel Pita Andrade. From December 1982 to January 1983
  • 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
  • Francisco de Goya: Maleri, Tegning, Grafikk
    Nasjonalgalleriet
    Oslo
    1996
    from 10th to April 14th 1996
  • Gant
    2017
Bibliografía
  • D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
    Roma D.Anderson: Editeur
    1908
    p. 28, n. 52
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    p. 91
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
    Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    pp. 202, n. 52
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 40c
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 182, n. 556
  • SAYRE, Eleanor
    The Changing image: Prints by Francisco Goya
    BostonMuseum of Fine Arts
    1974
    p. 78
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 147
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Los Caprichos de Goya
    col. Serie punto y línea
    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    pp. 44-45
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    MadridSilex
    1980
    pp. 104-105, nº 27
  • AGULLÓ Y COBO, Mercedes
    MadridAyuntamiento de Madrid
    1982
    p. 178
  • WILSON-BAREU, Juliet
    MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
    1992
    pp. 87-90
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    p. 279
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