Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1799
Dimensiones
218 x 153 mm
Técnica y soporte
Etching and burnished aquatint
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Ficha: realización/revisión
30 Nov 2010 / 29 May 2024
Inventario
225
Inscripciones

Poor girls! (at the bottom)

 22. (in the upper right-hand corner)

Historia

See Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Painter.

Two preparatory drawings of this engraving have survived (1) y (2).

Análisis artístico

Two women, completely covered and whose faces cannot be seen, have been arrested by two bailiffs who are following them. They have just passed through an archway that leads to the interior of the prison, as shown in the three manuscripts that explain the engravings in this series.

The darkness, achieved with a two-tone aquatint, envelops the figures. In the background a bright light, probably heralding the dawn, is interrupted by clouds.

In this print Goya continues with the theme of prostitution that he had tackled in print no. 19 of The Caprices (All Will Fall) and which he continued to develop in prints nos. 20 and 21. In this case the painter depicts the raids that took place with some regularity and in which prostitutes were arrested and taken to prison, many of whom were subsequently taken to the San Fernando Asylum to be picked up. At the same time, the artist criticises in a veiled way the hypocrisy of those who enforced the law, who were the same people who often extorted money from these women in order to obtain benefits of various kinds from them.

The theme appears in the first Satire To Arnesto by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (Gijón, 1744-Puerto de Vega, Navia, 1811), which had inspired the Aragonese artist in other engravings in the series. 

Conservación

The plate is preserved in the National Chalcography (no. 193).

Exposiciones
  • Goya. Gemälde Zeichnungen. Graphik. Tapisserien
    Kunsthalle Basel
    Basle
    1953
    from January 23th to April 12th 1953
  • De grafiek van Goya
    Rijksmuseum Rijksprentenkabinet
    Amsterdam
    1970
    from November 13th 1970 to January 17th 1971
  • El arte de Goya
    Museo de Arte Occidental de Tokio
    Tokyo
    1971
    from 16th 1971 to January 23th 1972. Exhibited also at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, January 29th to March 15th 1972.
  • 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
  • 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 e Italia
    Museo de Zaragoza
    Zaragoza
    2008
    organized by the Fundación Goya en Aragóna, consultant editor Joan Sureda Pons. From June 1st to September 15th 2008
  • Goya et la modernité
    Pinacothèque de Paris
    París
    2013
    from October 11st 2013 to March 16th 2014
  • 2022
Bibliografía
  • HARRIS, Tomás
    Goya engravings and lithographs, vol. I y II.
    OxfordBruno Cassirer
    1964
    p.92, cat. 57
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p.179, cat. 496
  • WILSON BAREAU, Juliet
    Goya, la década de los caprichos: dibujos y aguafuertes
    MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
    1992
    pp.158-159, cat. 92
  • SANTIAGO, Elena M. (coordinadora)
    Catálogo de las estampas de Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    MadridMinisterio de Educación y Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional
    1996
    p.85, cat. 110
  • 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.152-155
  • OROPESA, Marisa and RINCÓN GARCÍA, Wilfredo
    ParísPinacoteca de París
    2013
    p. 253
  • WILSON BAREAU, Juliet
    Goya. In the Norton Simon Museum
    PasadenaNorton Simon Museum
    2016
    pp. 42-75
  • TORAL OROPESA, María and MARTÍN MEDINA, Víctor
    Museo de Bellas Artes de Badajoz y Diputación de Badajoz
    2022
    p. 37
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