- Cronología
- 1814 - 1816
- Dimensiones
- 244 x 353 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Aguafuerte, aguatinta, punta seca y bruñidor
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 01 Oct 2021 / 22 Jun 2023
- Inventario
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6 (print, upper right-hand corner)
See How the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the countryside
Three copies of a state proof made before the aquatint was applied have been preserved: one from the Carderera collection, one from the Galinchon collection and one from a private collection in Paris.
The plate is preserved in the Calcografía Nacional, with Dogs at the bull (Bullfighting C) engraved on the reverse.
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). It depicts a Moor executing the luck known in Goya's time as " Aragonese" or " backwards", as in Another one locked up. The Moor, facing the viewer, quotes the bull, who stands in profile in an attitude of charging and in a position that denotes an accurate study of the natural. Behind the main figure is a second Moor in a static position, and in the background, in the semi-darkness, two other figures are barely sketched on the edge of the bullring. The play of light and shadow and the tonal gradations achieved with the burnisher stand out in the print.
The preparatory drawing for the present print, also entitled The Moors are doing another bullfight in the square with their dressing gowns, has been preserved.
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Grabados y dibujos de Goya en la Biblioteca NacionalBiblioteca NacionalMadrid1946catalogue Elena Páez Ríos
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Boston1974
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1975
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Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional. Exposición de grabados y dibujos en el sesquicentenario de su muerteBiblioteca NacionalMadrid1978May - June 1978
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Grabados de Goya: colección propiedad de la Biblioteca Nacional, que se conserva en su Gabinete deCasa de la Amistad de MoscúMoscow1979exhibition displayed from January 18th to 31st 1979
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1984
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Madrid1987
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Madrid1990
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Goya grabadorFundación Juan MarchMadrid1994consultant editors Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez and Julián Gállego, from January 14th to March 20th 1994
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Goya grabadorMuseo del Grabado Español ContemporáneoMarbella1996from March 8th to May 5th 1996
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Zaragoza1996
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Schlaf der Vernunft. Original radierungen von Francisco de GoyaMunich2000
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Madrid2002
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Madrid2002
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Bilbao2012
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Zaragoza2017
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OxfordBruno Cassirer1964vol. II, 1964, pp. 319, cat. 209
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 277, cat. 1159
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Goya, Das Zeitalter de Revolutionen. 1789-1830HamburgPrestel-Verlag Münche und Hamburger Kunsthalle1980p. 269, cat. 261
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Goya, toros y torerosMadridMinisterio de Cultura, Comunidad de Madrid1990p. 89, cat. 20
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2001pp. 50-51
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Goya. In the Norton Simon MuseumPasadenaNorton Simon Museum2016pp. 186-201
