Francisco de Goya

Sacrifice of Jephthah’s Daughter (Sacrificio de la hija de Jefté)

Sacrifice of Jephthah’s Daughter (Sacrificio de la hija de Jefté)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1775 - 1780
Ubicación
Unknown Collection
Dimensiones
Desconocidas
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Attributed work
Ficha: realización/revisión
10 Jan 2010 / 13 Jun 2023
Inventario
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Otros títulos:
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (Sacrificio de Ifigenia)
Historia

This work, along with the others in the series, belonged to the collection of the Duke and Duchess of Aveyro, in Madrid. Its current whereabouts are unknown.

Análisis artístico

Jephthah the Gileadite was called upon to lead the Israelites in battle against the children of Ammon. He asked Jehovah to deliver his enemies to him and, in exchange for this victory, he offered as a holocaust (burnt offering) the first person who met him at the door of his house. However, when he arrived back home, victorious, it was his only daughter who came out to greet him. The girl accepted her fate but asked her father for two months' grace so that she might go into the mountains and lament her virginity. At the end of this period, she was finally sacrificed, without ever having been with a man (Judges 11).

If this is a work by Goya, it would have served him as a practice run for the realization of the painting of the same name which is now in the Varez-Fisa collection, Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter. This later composition was a noticeably improvement in terms of its sense of drama and its monumental scale.

For the artistic commentary on the series as a whole, see Moses and the Brazen Serpent.

Bibliografía
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 251, cat. 107
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    pp. 77, 91, cat. 167
  • ANGELIS, Rita de
    L’opera pittorica completa di Goya
    MilanRizzoli
    1974
    p. 93, cat. 62
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. I, p. 68 y p. 256 (il.)
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