Francisco de Goya

And his house burns down

Clasificación
And his house burns down
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1799
Dimensiones
219 x 154 mm
Técnica y soporte
Aguafuerte, aguatinta bruñida y buril
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Undisputed work
Ficha: realización/revisión
28 Nov 2010 / 29 May 2024
Inventario
225
Inscripciones

Ysele quema la Casa. (at the bottom)

18. (in the upper right-hand corner)

Historia

See Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Painter.

In the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris the only proof of the state before the letter is preserved. In it the aquatint is already burnished and the title is written with the first three words together, Ysele quema la casa, and this is how it was engraved in the definitive version, except with the "c" of "casa" capitalised.

Two preparatory drawings of this engraving have survived (1) and (2).

Análisis artístico

The picture depicts an old man trying to put on his trousers. His spread legs, one of them slightly forward, reveal the difficulty he is having in getting dressed and indicate his state of inebriation. As a result, a fire is about to break out, as a lamp has set fire to a wooden chair on which the drunkard has propped it up.

The three manuscripts available to us all agree on the meaning of this print in which Goya criticises the abuse of alcohol, which is even more blatant in the case of a man of a certain age and from whom mature attitudes are to be expected. It is possible that the painter took as his starting point for this image one of the relatively common fires reported in the newspapers, especially in the esparto shops, many of which were attributed to the drunkenness of those responsible. This hypothesis is quite plausible if we take into account the title of one of the drawings that would have served as preparation for this engraving, Drunken Espartero who fails to undress.

This is not the only time Goya confronts alcohol abuse, as he does so again in The Drunkards. However, in the latter, beyond being critical, he captures a genre scene in the style of Dutch painting, more specifically, some paintings by Frans Hals (Antwerp, 1580?-Haarlem, 1666).

Conservación

The plate is in poor condition ( National Chalcography, no. 189).

Exposiciones
  • Goya. Gemälde Zeichnungen. Graphik. Tapisserien
    Kunsthalle Basel
    Basle
    1953
    from January 23th to April 12th 1953
  • Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)
    Hamburger Kunsthalle
    Hamburg
    1980
  • Goya. La década de Los Caprichos
    Madrid
    1992
    organized 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 1993
  • Francisco de Goya
    Museo d'Arte Moderna
    Lugano
    1996
    exhibition celebrated from September 22nd to November 17th.
  • Francisco Goya. Sein leben im spiegel der graphik. Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux. 1746-1996
    Galerie Kornfeld
    Bern
    1996
    from November 21st 1996 to January 1997
  • Goya e la tradizione italiana
    Fondazione Magnani Rocca
    Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma)
    2006
    consultant editors Fred Licht and Simona Tosini Pizzetti. From September 9th to December 3th 2006
  • Goya. Opera grafica
    Pinacoteca del Castello di San Giorgio
    Legnano
    2006
    exhibition celebrated from December 16th 2006 to April 1st 2007
  • Goya et la modernité
    Pinacothèque de Paris
    París
    2013
    from October 11st 2013 to March 16th 2014
  • Goya: Order and disorder
    Museum of Fine Arts
    Boston
    2014
Bibliografía
  • HARRIS, Tomás
    Goya engravings and lithographs, vol. I y II.
    OxfordBruno Cassirer
    1964
    p.88, cat. 53
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p.178, cat. 487
  • WILSON BAREAU, Juliet
    Goya, la década de los caprichos: dibujos y aguafuertes
    MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
    1992
    pp.254-258
  • SANTIAGO, Elena M. (coordinadora)
    Catálogo de las estampas de Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    MadridMinisterio de Educación y Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional
    1996
    p.83, cat. 106
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    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 edición
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    pp.134-137
  • OROPESA, Marisa and RINCÓN GARCÍA, Wilfredo
    ParísPinacoteca de París
    2013
    p. 18
  • ILCHMAN, Frederick y STEPANEK, Stephanie L. (comisarios)
    Goya: Order & Disorder
    BostonMuseum of Fine Arts Boston Publications
    2014
    pp. 228-229
  • WILSON BAREAU, Juliet
    Goya. In the Norton Simon Museum
    PasadenaNorton Simon Museum
    2016
    pp. 42-75
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