- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 205 x 144 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 13 Sep 2022 / 27 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- D4230
71 (in composite pencil. recto, upper left-hand corner)
11 (in composite pencil. recto, lower left-hand corner)
Si amanece nos bamos (in pencil. recto, lower left-hand corner)
82 (in pencil. Reverse, upper left-hand corner)
Stamp of the Prado Museum, (stamped in purple ink, on verso, upper right-hand 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.
Preparatory drawing for Caprice 71. If the sun rises, we leave.
Sitting on a bulging sack containing, presumably, the spoils of children. The Brujo Mayor gives his last orders to four of his fellows, pointing to the sky from where the signal to leave will soon come.
Above the infernal group, Goya has sketched the silhouette of a winged vampire, which in the etching will be transformed into a menacing shadow cast against a background of starry sky.
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949pp. 99-100
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p.209, fig.232
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 70
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 184, nº 595
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 157
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977pp.50-51
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado1999p. 357
