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Bullfights: The Celebrated Picador, Fernando del Toro, Draws the Fierce Beast on with his Pique

1816, printed 1876

Francisco de Goya

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Culture
Spain
Medium
engraving
Credit Line
Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1923.566
Catalogue raisonné
Harris 230, 3rd. edition, 1876; Perez Sanchez and Gallego p. 163 no. 27
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Location
Not on view
Print
A horizontally oriented etching in black ink depicts a bullfighting scene in a dark arena. Centrally, a dark bull faces right toward a horseman wielding a long pole. To the left, another rider gallops away. Ghostly figures stand in background shadows created by heavy hatching. The dark upper portion contrasts with the light, textured ground, highlighting the tense confrontation between the central bull and the mounted figure.

Bullfights: The Celebrated Picador, Fernando del Toro, Draws the Fierce Beast on with his Pique

1816, printed 1876

Francisco de Goya

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Spain

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