- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 190 x 136 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Aguada roja, trazos de lápiz negro sobre papel
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 22 Nov 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4231)
6 (in pencil; recto, lower left-hand corner) 6 (next to it, in pen, brown ink)
8 (in composite pencil; reverse, centre)
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.
This is the preparatory drawing for Caprice nº 8, What did they take her away, which, in turn, is inspired by drawing nº 61 of Notebook B, Caricatures. It is his Saint's Day.
This drawing does not differ significantly from the engraving, as in both cases two hooded men can be seen forcibly holding a young woman, who throws her head back and makes a gesture of anguish. The first holds her by the waist and the second by the ankles.
In the background of the drawing, however, there is a landscape with trees that disappears in the engraving, where the painter has preferred to create an absolutely neutral background in which nothing detracts from the figures in the scene.
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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. 59
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Goya. La década de Los CaprichosMadrid1992organized 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 1993p. 29, cat. 17
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Francisco de Goya: Maleri, Tegning, GrafikkNasjonalgallerietOslo1996from 10th to April 14th 1996cat. 36
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 19, n. 8
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 72
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 189, fig. 99
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 7
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 177, cat. 466
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 108, cat. 71
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 48
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El mundo de Goya en sus dibujosMadridUrbión1979p. 73-74
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992p. 29, cat. 17
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Goya. El capricho y la invención. Cuadros de gabinete, bocetos y miniaturasMadridMuseo del Prado1993p. 278, fig. 189
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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. 89
