Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos was one of the most illustrious representatives of the Spanish Enlightenment, a man of letters, writer and poet, as well as a statesman with advanced ideas. Born in Gij&oa [+]
The last of the albums produced in Bordeaux offers a succession of untitled scenes in which an apparent representation of reality is combined with fantasy. This woman, covered with a mantle, armed wit [+]
Goya used the drawing in Album A of a young woman sweeping to design this complex scene of a brothel, which is also preparatory work for an etching for the Caprichos. The first contemporary comments w [+]
This popular scene, traditionally interpreted as being set in an Andalusian context, could also be set in Madrid. Drawn with just the tip of the brush, it stands out for the light wash used to depict [+]
Preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 13. They are Hot (G02101). This work is one of twenty-six pen drawings that make up the Dreams series on which the Caprichos were based. Both the prelimina [+]
Este dibujo se incluye en el conjunto de 77 copias de los Caprichos de Goya de autor anónimo los cuales, sin aparente relación con la obra de Martín Rico, sin embargo han formado parte de su colección [+]
Satan’s Desperation does not correspond to any of the prints from the Disparates, but it shares the same formal and technical characteristics as the rest of that series’ preliminary drawings: the same [+]
Concealed beneath what is apparently a scene of witchcraft lies a fierce attack on the oligarchy of the Church and nobility whose power, far from being based on Reason, makes use of blind faith and su [+]
Este dibujo se incluye en el conjunto de 77 copias de los Caprichos de Goya de autor anónimo los cuales, sin aparente relación con la obra de Martín Rico, sin embargo han formado parte de su colección [+]
The series begins with a scene alluding to the mythical origins of tauromachy, in which Goya depicts the bullfighting practices of the first Spanish settlers in a natural landscape where herds of wild [+]
This is a preparatory drawing for an unpublished plate from Los Caprichos. The only remaining print of that plate is a single proof printed on the back of another etching at the Biblioteca Nacional (1 [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 7, God forgive her: Even thus he cannot make her out (G02095) is part of The Dreams, a series of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that serve as the ba [+]
Este dibujo se incluye en el conjunto de 77 copias de los Caprichos de Goya de autor anónimo los cuales, sin aparente relación con la obra de Martín Rico, sin embargo han formado parte de su colección [+]
This preparatory drawing for an unpublished plate from the Caprichos is one of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings known as The Dreams, which constitute the basis for Los Caprichos. They are headed by Dre [+]
Este dibujo se incluye en el conjunto de 77 copias de los Caprichos de Goya de autor anónimo los cuales, sin aparente relación con la obra de Martín Rico, sin embargo han formado parte de su colección [+]
Este dibujo se incluye en el conjunto de 77 copias de los Caprichos de Goya de autor anónimo los cuales, sin aparente relación con la obra de Martín Rico, sin embargo han formado parte de su colección [+]
Este dibujo se incluye en el conjunto de 77 copias de los Caprichos de Goya de autor anónimo los cuales, sin aparente relación con la obra de Martín Rico, sin embargo han formado parte de su colección [+]
A preparatory drawing for Disparates, 6, Cruel Folly. The title of the plate comes from an artist’s proof now at the Museo Lázaro Galdeano in Madrid. Before this state proof with the handwritte [+]