- Cronología
- Ca. 1796 - 1797
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 238 x 165 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 29 Nov 2010 / 22 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4194)
45 (in pencil; recto, lower left-hand corner)
[24?] //El espartero Borracho qe. no acierta a desnudarse, y dando buenos consejos a un candil yncendia la casa (in pencil; recto, along lower centre)
21 (in pencil; reverse, lower right)
Watermark: H.C. Wend & Zoonen [Large shield with helmet and letters "H C W" inside].
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.
The drawing of the Album of Madrid or Notebook B Good priest Where was it celebrated? (B. 86) precedes the work we are dealing with here. And there are some changes that have to do with its meaning. In this case, Goya specifies that it is about an esparto worker in whose workshops, as the press of the time reports, fires were frequently set due to his drunkenness.
The painter takes up this work again in Caprice no. 18 And His House is Burning, making very few changes to the print. In both cases we can see the same elements and identical posture of the figure with his legs open and one slightly forward, as well as the somewhat lost expression on his face which alludes to his drunkenness.
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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. 254, cat. 154
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Goya: Order and disorderMuseum of Fine ArtsBoston2014cat. 147
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Madrid2019cat. 55
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 20, n. 18
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 77
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 192-193, fig. 120
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 12
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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. 18
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 178, cat. 488
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 98, cat. 61
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977cat. 18
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992p. 254, cat. 154
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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.68
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Goya: Order & DisorderBostonMuseum of Fine Arts Boston Publications2014pp. 228-229
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2019p. 124