- Cronología
- Ca. 1814 - 1816
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 173 x 282 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 01 Oct 2021 / 15 May 2023
- Inventario
- (D4300)
17 (inverted, in pencil, top right-hand corner)
17 (in pencil, lower right corner)
See How the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the countryside.
This preparatory drawing passed by inheritance in 1828 to Javier Goya, the painter's son, and in 1854 to Mariano Goya y Goicoechea, the artist's grandson. It was subsequently owned by Valentín Carderera (ca. 1861) and Mariano Carderera (1880). In 1886 it was acquired from Mariano Carderera, along with many other drawings by Goya, including almost all the preparatory studies for the Bullfight, by the Directorate General of Public Instruction, and was assigned to the Prado Museum, where it entered on 12 November 1886.
See How the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the countryside.
Preparatory drawing of the print The famous Martincho putting flags at the break. In this case, the work focuses on the protagonists of the scene, Martincho and the bull. What Goya depicts is a method of banderillas used by the bullfighters of the time, which is no longer in use today.
The bullfighter's posture will later be the same in the engraving, although here, in the drawing, the audience does not yet appear at the barrier, as we will see in the print. Likewise, in the engraving Goya replaces the hat worn by Martincho in the drawing with a simple hairnet, the typical attire of bullfighters of the period.
The drawing was pasted onto a second piece of laid paper belonging to a French army record book in Spain.
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1946pp. 177-216, espec. pp. 185 y 195-197
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 167
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ParísLe Club Français du Livre1963p. 86
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 278, cat. 1181
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Barcelona1974pp. 14-15
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975pp. 364-365, cat. 257
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Goya, dibujosMadridSilex1980pp. 150-151, cat. 50
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Goya y Aragón. Familia, amistades y encargos artísticoscol. Col. Mariano de Pano y RuataZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada de Aragón1995pp. 224-225
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2001pp. 65-66
