Francisco de Goya

No one has seen us

Clasificación
No one has seen us
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1799
Dimensiones
217 x 152 mm
Técnica y soporte
Aguafuerte, aguatinta bruñida y buril
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Undisputed work
Ficha: realización/revisión
17 Jan 2011 / 29 May 2024
Inventario
225
Inscripciones

Nadie nos ha visto. (at the bottom)

 79. (in the upper right-hand corner)

Historia

See Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Painter.

There is a state proof with burnished aquatint and burin at the Art Institute of Chicago on which the number 79 and the title appear in manuscript.

A preparatory drawing of this engraving is in the Prado Museum.

Análisis artístico

In a wine cellar four friars are drinking opulently in front of a barrel of wine. Three of them, who are clearly illuminated, face the viewer, while another in the foreground has his back turned and holds a large glass in one of his hands. In the background a ghostly figure can be made out, covering his head with a hood and looking on with pleasure.

The lines of the etching are very marked and only one wash has been used. Goya also uses touches of burin to reinforce the engraved lines.

The manuscript in the National Library gives the following interpretation for this engraving: "The priests and friars take brave gulps when no one sees them; but the world knows it well. The abbé's glass is of good make to indicate the greater disorder in the clergy".

In this print, the Aragonese painter continues the criticism of the life of certain sectors of the Church that he had already deployed in the preceding engraving, Caprice no. 78, Dispatches, which awakens. In many convents and monasteries the days went by carefree and in the midst of great comforts paid for by the taxes paid by the people.

Conservación

The plate is preserved in rather poor condition (National Chalcography, no. 250).

Exposiciones
  • Goya. Gemälde Zeichnungen. Graphik. Tapisserien
    Kunsthalle Basel
    Basle
    1953
    from January 23th to April 12th 1953
  • 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
    Museo d'Arte Moderna
    Lugano
    1996
    exhibition celebrated from September 22nd to November 17th.
  • Francisco Goya. Sein leben im spiegel der graphik. Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux. 1746-1996
    Galerie Kornfeld
    Bern
    1996
    from November 21st 1996 to January 1997
  • Francisco Goya. Capricci, follie e disastri della guerra
    San Donato Milanese
    2000
    Opere grafiche della Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta
  • Goya e la tradizione italiana
    Fondazione Magnani Rocca
    Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma)
    2006
    consultant editors Fred Licht and Simona Tosini Pizzetti. From September 9th to December 3th 2006
  • Goya. Opera grafica
    Pinacoteca del Castello di San Giorgio
    Legnano
    2006
    exhibition celebrated from December 16th 2006 to April 1st 2007
  • Goya et la modernité
    Pinacothèque de Paris
    París
    2013
    from October 11st 2013 to March 16th 2014
  • Madrid
    2017
Bibliografía
  • HARRIS, Tomás
    Goya engravings and lithographs, vol. I y II.
    OxfordBruno Cassirer
    1964
    p.157, cat. 114
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p.185, cat. 611
  • WILSON BAREAU, Juliet
    Goya, la década de los caprichos: dibujos y aguafuertes
    MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
    1992
    pp.303-305, cat. 184-185
  • SANTIAGO, Elena M. (coordinadora)
    Catálogo de las estampas de Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    MadridMinisterio de Educación y Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional
    1996
    p.116, cat. 171
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    El libro de los caprichos: dos siglos de interpretaciones (1799-1999). Catálogo de los dibujos, pruebas de estado, láminas de cobre y estampas de la primera edición
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    pp.388-391
  • OROPESA, Marisa and RINCÓN GARCÍA, Wilfredo
    ParísPinacoteca de París
    2013
    p. 70
  • WILSON BAREAU, Juliet
    Goya. In the Norton Simon Museum
    PasadenaNorton Simon Museum
    2016
    pp. 42-75
  • CALVO RUATA, José Ignacio, BORRÁS GUALIS, Gonzalo M. and MARTÍNEZ HERRANZ, Amparo
    ZaragozaGobierno de Aragón y Fundación Bancaria Ibercaja
    2017
    p. 188
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