Francisco de Goya

Caught of a Moor in the bullring

Clasificación
Caught of a Moor in the bullring
Datos Generales
Cronología
1814 - 1816
Dimensiones
245 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
-
Inscripciones

8 (print, upper right-hand corner)

Historia

 

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

A state proof, made before the aquatint was applied, is preserved in the Carderera Collection and is now in the National Library of Spain.

The plate is kept at the National Chalcography.

Análisis artístico

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.

Exposiciones
  • Grabados y dibujos de Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1946
    catalogue Elena Páez Ríos
  • Boston
    1974
  • 1975
  • Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional. Exposición de grabados y dibujos en el sesquicentenario de su muerte
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1978
    May - June 1978
  •  Grabados de Goya: colección propiedad de la Biblioteca Nacional, que se conserva en su Gabinete de
    Casa de la Amistad de Moscú
    Moscow
    1979
    exhibition displayed from January 18th to 31st 1979
  • 1984
  • Madrid
    1987
  • Madrid
    1990
  • Goya grabador
    Fundación Juan March
    Madrid
    1994
    consultant editors Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez and Julián Gállego, from January 14th to March 20th 1994
  • Goya grabador
    Museo del Grabado Español Contemporáneo
    Marbella
    1996
    from March 8th to May 5th 1996
  • Zaragoza
    1996
  • Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1996
    from September 19th to December 15th 1996
  • Schlaf der Vernunft. Original radierungen von Francisco de Goya
    Munich
    2000
  • Madrid
    2002
  • Madrid
    2002
  • Bilbao
    2012
  • Zaragoza
    2017
Bibliografía
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    1946
    pp. 177-216, espec. pp. 185 y 191
  • HARRIS, Tomás
    OxfordBruno Cassirer
    1964
    vol. II, 1964, pp. 321, cat. 211
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 277, cat. 1163
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Goya, toros y toreros
    MadridMinisterio de Cultura, Comunidad de Madrid
    1990
    p. 91, cat. 22
  • SANTIAGO PÁEZ, Elena y WILSON-BAREAU, Juliet (comisarias)
    Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    MadridBiblioteca Nacional, Sociedad Estatal Goya 96 y Lunwerg
    1996
    p. 246
  • MATILLA, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    2001
    pp. 53-54
  • WILSON BAREAU, Juliet
    Goya. In the Norton Simon Museum
    PasadenaNorton Simon Museum
    2016
    pp. 186-201
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