- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 228 x 151 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Undisputed work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 15 Dec 2010 / 23 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 3919)
26 [cut] (in pencil; recto, upper middle)
30 (in pencil; recto, lower left-hand corner)
El Asno Literato (in pencil; recto, lower centre)
25 (in pencil; reverse, upper right-hand corner)
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.
This drawing, which belongs to the series of Dreams, is one of the preliminary works for Capricho No. 39, Until his Grandfather and, in turn, is inspired by the drawing in Notebook B, Masks of B. There are also masks of literary donkeys (B.72). It is believed to be number 26 in the series.
With regard to the drawing in Notebook B, Goya has introduced an element that gradually brings us closer to the meaning of engraving. On the table on which the donkey is leaning we can see a coat of arms that would allude to the animal's noble origins. The donkey seems to be lost in thought and is looking straight ahead, whereas in the engraving it is turned towards the viewer.
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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. 46
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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. 211, cat. 125
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Goya. La imagen de la mujerMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid2001from October 30th 2001 to February 10th 2002. Exhibitied also at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 10th to June 2nd 2002, consultant editor Francisco Calvo Serrallercat. 24
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 26, n. 39a
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 85
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 198-199, fig. 162
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 36
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Goya. Los Caprichos. Colección de ochenta y cinco estampas en las que se fustigan errores y vicios humanosMadridEdiciones de Arte y Bibliofilia1966cat. 39
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 181, cat. 528
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 99, cat. 62
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 112
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El mundo de Goya en sus dibujosMadridUrbión1979pp. 87-88
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992p. 211, cat. 125
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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. 223
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Goya, la imagen de la mujerMadridMuseo Nacional del Prado y Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado2001p. 67, fig. 24.
