- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 197 x 134 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Sanguine on paper
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 20 Dec 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4382)
74 (in pencil. Obverse, lower left-hand corner)
Watermark: [Shield crowned with monogram "MA" and letter "SOLE" (lower half)].
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 no. 47, A Gift to the Master
The sketch fot this engraving shows several differencias with respecto to the final result. In it, the master has features more characteristic of his status as a billy goat, while his foreleg is held by the witch with a bow who kneels; in the engraving this figure is holding out an offering to him in the form of a foetus. Between her hindquarters are udders which, in the print, have been replaced by another witch who is part of her retinue of acolytes.
The figure in the foreground maintains her prayerful pose in both cases, while the two in the background are barely distinguishable.
These differences indicate that what Goya had initially conceived as a tribute to a master becomes in the engraving an act in which an offering is being made to him.
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 27, n. 47
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949pp. 88-89
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 201, fig. 181
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 46
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Goya. Los Caprichos. Colección de ochenta y cinco estampas en las que se fustigan errores y vicios humanosMadridEdiciones de Arte y Bibliofilia1966cat. 47
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 182, cat. 546
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 142, cat. 105
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 43
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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 ediciónMadridMuseo Nacional del Prado1999p. 259
