- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 205 x 145 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Pencil and sanguine on laid paper
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Undisputed work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 30 Nov 2011 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4352)
20 ( in pencil; recto; lower left-hand corner)
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.
The second preparatory drawing for Caprice no. 20, They Are Plucked presents on the verso of the folio a drawing entitled Giant Figure on a Balcony.
In this drawing, Goya shows that he had an extremely clear idea of how the print should look; the composition, the characterisation of the figures and the distribution of the shadows are the same in both cases.
He works with precision and calibrates in a very approximate way how the lighting of the characters in the engraving will be. He has left several areas of the paper lighter, such as the clothes of the two women carrying brooms, the bodies of the birds and the tunic of one of the figures in the background.
This drawing was transported to copper.
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El arte de GoyaMuseo de Arte Occidental de TokioTokyo1971from 16th 1971 to January 23th 1972. Exhibited also at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, January 29th to March 15th 1972.cat. 65
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Madrid2019cat. 26
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 21, n. 20
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 77-78
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 193, fig. 126
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 14
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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. 20
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970pp. 178, cat. 491
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 118, cat. 81
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 35
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MadridSilex1980pp. 98-99, nº 24
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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. 145
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2019p. 91
