Mariano Ceballos, aka " The Indian ", kills the bull from his horse.

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The first of the three prints dedicated in Bullfighting (nos. 23 and 24) and its extensions (J) to Mariano Ceballos, aka "The Indian", a famous bullfighter from the time of Goya's youth, originally from Spanish America, specifically from the Governorate of the Río de la Plata, part of present-day Argentina.

In the scene we see Ceballos performing his best-known number, which consists of confronting the bull on the back of a horse or another bull. He performs the luck of killing with a short sword, which gives the impression that he is going to fall off the horse. In the bullring we see a large group of people inside the ring, probably members of his crew. The stands are also full of spectators, although we can only guess at them, as we can only see their silhouettes among the stripes that darken the background.

The chiaroscuro effect is particularly notable, especially because only the bull, the horse and Ceballos himself are illuminated, leaving the rest of the elements in semi-darkness.

Beruete highlights Goya's work with the burnisher to achieve the modelling of the bull, especially in reference to the state tests. Sayre also praises the work of the burnisher, who has been removing the lights to give greater prominence to the fight between the bull and Ceballos. Luján, for his part, emphasises the chiaroscuro although he criticises the horse's stagnation, which in his opinion detracts from the dynamism of the whole and does not correspond to the cast depicted.

Lafuente Ferrari believes that Ceballos is carrying a sword or rapier, which he has plunged almost completely into the bull's back, and not a dagger or short sword.

Martínez-Novillo includes the work with the bullfighting prints that deal with particular suertes, namely: The very skilful student from Falces, dressed in a bullfighter's cape, teases the bull with his "quiebros", The famous Martincho putting flags at the break, He himself overturns a bull in the bullring of Madrid, Martincho's recklessness in the Zaragoza bullring, Another of his follies in the same bullring, 
Lightness and daring of Juanito Apiñani in Madrid and The same Ceballos mounted on another bull that broke rejones in the bullring of Madrid.

In addition to the three Bullfighting prints and their extensions, Goya dedicated a fourth print to Mariano Ceballos, specifically one of his lithographs from the Bulls of Bordeaux series, entitled The Famous American, Mariano Ceballos.

There is a preparatory drawing of this engraving, also entitled Mariano Ceballos, aka "The Indian", kills the bull from his horse.