- Cronología
- Ca. 1797
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 202 x 147 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 20 Aug 2021 / 28 Apr 2023
- Inventario
- D3941
30 (in pencil, top right-hand corner)
12 (in pencil, bottom left)
30 (in pencil, lower left-hand corner)
Watermark: [Shield crowned with the monogram "MA" and the letter "SOLE"] (lower half)
The drawing passed by inheritance in 1828 to Javier Goya, the painter's son, and in 1854 to Mariano Goya y Goicoechea, the artist's grandson. It was subsequently owned by Valentín Carderera (ca. 1861) and Mariano Carderera (ca. 1880). In 1886 it was acquired from Mariano Carderera by the General Direction of Public Instruction and was assigned to the Prado Museum, where it entered on 12 November 1886.
This drawing shows the well-known theme of Saturn eating his children, which more than twenty years later the Aragonese painter painted on a wall of his Quinta del Sordo (now in the Museo del Prado: Saturn eating a son) with a quite different composition to this one. In this drawing Saturn's face does not have the expressiveness and strength it has in the painting. The upper part of the figure is shown, depicted as a giant-sized, bearded old man holding his two much smaller sons in his hands and biting one of them, which differs in part from the later painting of the Quinta del Sordo, in which only one of the sons is reflected at the moment when Saturn tears him apart and engulfs him, making the scene one of the cruelest in Goya's iconography.
This sketch, according to Gassier, was not continued in the Caprices series.
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