- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 205 x 144 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
- D4348/001
7 (in pencil, upper left-hand corner)
72 (in pencil, lower left-hand corner)
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.
Preparatory drawing for Caprice 72. You will not escape.
The essence of the subject has been obtained by copying the drawing on the front of the sheet, but with a number of modifications that indicate that Goya did not simply intend to invert the subject, but to create a new piece. He redrew the woman's arms, which become much more "dancing", and added behind her the winged monsters that appear in the print. The result is an extraordinarily harmonious composition of curves and counter-curves (arms and wings).
Various commentaries of the period have given names to the figures. It has been claimed that it is the French dancer Mademoiselle Duté, pursued by birds of prey, one of them apparently being Godoy. Once again, these interpretations are alien to Goya, as he was on good terms with Godoy at the time he painted this work.
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Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)Hamburger KunsthalleHamburg1980cat. 235b
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p.100
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 209, fig. 235
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 71
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 184, nº 598 y 597
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975pp. 158 -159
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 51
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El mundo de Goya en sus dibujosMadridUrbión1979pp. 100-102
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Goya, Das Zeitalter de Revolutionen. 1789-1830HamburgPrestel-Verlag Münche und Hamburger Kunsthalle1980p. 277
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado1999p. 361
