The very dexterous student from Falces, wearing a mask, teases the bull with his "quiebros".

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With this engraving Goya began his evocation of well-known bullfighting figures, taking as his starting point texts narrating their exploits. In this case, the scene depicts a duel between the bull and a man on foot, known as the student of Falces, who faces the bull without removing his cape, which covers him completely. If in the previous scenes the fight was between the horse and the bull, here the fight is between the man and the animal.

One again, the composition is repeated. In the center of the scene, completely delimited, we find the main couple, made up of the bullfighter and the bull, while in the background we see, or intuit, the audience attending the bullfight. It is striking how the lighting emphasises the animal, as it is mainly focused on him.

The scene is very dynamic, both for the bull and for the student, whose broken movements are more marked by the cape. In fact, he seems to have been depicted performing a cut on the bull. According to the chroniclers of the time, he made the bull surrender several times without leaving the enclosure marked out by himself in the arena and without even unbuttoning his cape.

Martínez-Novillo includes this engraving among those that deal with particular suertes, featuring bullfighters from Navarre and Aragon.

In these scenes, according to Holo, Goya reflects a wide variety of situations depicting renowned bullfighters, animal abuse and often irrational behaviour, all in the light of the Enlightenmen.

Lafuente Ferrari highlights both this print and the one immediately before it, entitled A Spanish Gentleman in the Bullring breaking the "rejoncillos" without the help of the pimps, as well as the later one, entitled The Famous Martincho putting flagpoles at the break, for their treatment of light and space within the Bullfighting series.

There is a preparatory drawing for this print, also entitled The very dexterous student from Falces, wearing a mask, teases the bull with his "quiebros".