Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
192 x 143 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
D4223
Inscripciones

85? (pencil, under left-hand corner)

Historia

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.

Análisis artístico

Preparatory drawing for the Caprice 61. Volaverunt. The drawing does not allow the subject to be captured as accurately as the engraving, and there are also notable differences: In the drawing the sorcerers are only two, while in the print there are three, and the woman, instead of flying as in the etching, seems to take a determined stride above the sorcerer who is looking at the viewer.

As for the flying position, Goya is given to repeating it, as can be seen in Caprice 46.  Correction, and Capriche 52, What a Tailor Can Do. cholars have unanimously agreed that this composition depicts the Duchess of Alba being carried in flight by a series of witches/warlocks. One could also compare the figure of the woman, who unfurls her veils to fly, with the drawing Nightmare (E.20) from Notebook E, or Black-bordered, of a similar subject, but with profound differences in conception.

 

Conservación
Muy estropeado en la parte superior
Exposiciones
  • Goya: images of women
    National Gallery of Art
    Washington
    2002
  • Madrid
    2007
  • París
    2008
Bibliografía
  • D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
    Roma D.Anderson: Editeur
    1908
    p. 31, n. 61
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    p. 95
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
    Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    p.205, fig. 211
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 59
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 183, nº 574
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 154
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Los Caprichos de Goya
    col. Serie punto y línea
    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    p. 48
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    El mundo de Goya en sus dibujos
    MadridUrbión
    1979
    pp. 106-107
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    p. 315
  • TOMLINSON, Janis A.
    WashingtonNational Gallery of Art. Washington
    2002
    p. 275
  • MÜHLE-MAURER, Gudrun and MENA MARQUÉS, Manuela B.
    La duquesa de Alba, «musa» de Goya. El mito y la historia
    MadridEdiciones el Viso, Museo Nacional del Prado
    2006
    p. 62
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