Caught of a Moor in the bullring

See How the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the countryside.

The print is part of the subgroup, within the group of "historical" scenes of bullfighting (Nos. 1-11), dedicated to the bullfighting of the Moors (Nos. 3-8 and 17)

This is the first print in the series to show a bullfight. Specifically, it depicts a Moor being caught while another Moor holds a bull's horn and is preparing to stick a spear into the bull. Two other Moors watch the scene in the background. In the background there is an architectural setting with semicircular arches and columns, an anachronism that suggests, rather than a historicist representation, an evocation of a scene seen in a square in one of the towns occupied by the French troops.

Lafuente Ferrari pointed out the similarity between the much sharper background of the preparatory drawing, also titled Caught of a Moor in the bullring, and an unrecorded design for War Disasters entitled Transporting the Wounded to Hospital.