- Cronología
- Ca. 1796 - 1797
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 238 x 179 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 15 Mar 2023 / 23 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- D4392
58 (in pencil; recto, lower left)
Sueno / De Brujas (in pencil; recto, lower centre)
Watermark: H C WEND / & / ZOONEN
On the gestation, history and aims of the series known as Dreams, a set of preparatory drawings for The Caprices, see Dream 1: Universal Language.
Line of provenance of the present drawing: Javier Goya; Mariano Goya, 1854; Valentín Carderera, ca. 1861; Mariano Carderera, 1880; Prado Museum, 1886.
A preparatory drawing for Caprice 70. Devoted Profession, it tis in turn inspired by a composition from the work Witches to Fly (B.56). In this scene he criticises misunderstood religiosoty, that is, he attacks the clergy, whom he considers hypocritical and ignorant, represented through the personification of witches.
He was not entirely satisfied with the result of the drawing and used the transparency of this inks on the back of the sheet to produce Dream of a Beginning Witch (3rd dream), where he made modifications and this is the work he later transferred to the copper plate.
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Goya y el espíritu de la IlustraciónMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1988from October 6th to December 18th 1988. Exhibited also at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 18th to March 26th 1989; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York, May 9th to July 16th 1989, Madrid curator Manuela B. Mena Marqués, scientific directors Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez and Eleanor A. Sayrecat. 60
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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 1993cat. 60
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 32, n. 70
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 99
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 156-158, fig. 229
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 69
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 184, nº 593
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 79
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Goya y el espíritu de la IlustraciónMadridMuseo del Prado1988pp. 243-244
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992pp. 100-103, n. 60
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado1999p. 353
