- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 195 x 144 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 01 Dec 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4211)
72 (in pencil. recto. Upper right-hand corner)
10 (in pencil. recto. lower left 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.
The sketch we are dealing with here was used as a preparation for Caprice 22, Poor girls! Moreover, there is a clear dependence on drawing 82: Poor girls, how many would deserve it better! What is this? What must it be, that they are being taken to San Fernando in Notebook B.
Although Goya works superficially and quickly, he shows in this image that he has a very precise idea of what the engraving should be like. With respect to the drawing in Notebook B, he has modified the clothes of the bailiffs, who are covered with a cloak, as we can see in the print. However, in this sketch they are both looking towards the front, whereas in the engraving the one in the background is looking at his companion. In addition, the Aragonese painter has replaced the sketched houses on the right of the paper in the drawing with part of an arch that can be seen in the engraving.
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El arte de GoyaMuseo de Arte Occidental de TokioTokyo1971from 16th 1971 to January 23th 1972. Exhibited also at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, January 29th to March 15th 1972.cat. 67
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 21, n. 22
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 78-79
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 194, fig. 130
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 16
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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. 22
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 179, cat. 497
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 120, cat. 83
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 35-36
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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. 153
