Resumen de Jean-Louis Gintrac and Goya's 'La Boda'
Long known but never fully appraised,Jean-Louis Gintrac's somewhat inept drawing after Francisco Goya's La Boda has usually been dismissed as an awkward caricature by a minor artist.' It was reproduced lithographically under the title Un mariage burlesque (Fig. 17) for the new Parisian art journal L'Artiste in early December 1834,2 some six years after Goya's death at Bordeaux, this being the first occasion that a painting by the artist was illustrated in the press of any country.3 In addition to this distinction, the print provides useful clues for deciphering Goya's conception and composition of La Boda, which formed part of the 1791-92 series of cartoons painted for tapestries intended to decorate Charles IV's office at El Escorial, as well as allowing the much-doubted oil sketch (boceto) for this particular cartoon to be definitely identified.
