- 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
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8 (print, upper right-hand corner)
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.
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.
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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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Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca NacionalBiblioteca NacionalMadrid1996from September 19th to December 15th 1996cat. 273
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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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1946pp. 177-216, espec. pp. 185 y 191
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OxfordBruno Cassirer1964vol. II, 1964, pp. 321, cat. 211
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 277, cat. 1163
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Goya, toros y torerosMadridMinisterio de Cultura, Comunidad de Madrid1990p. 91, cat. 22
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Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca NacionalMadridBiblioteca Nacional, Sociedad Estatal Goya 96 y Lunwerg1996p. 246
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2001pp. 53-54
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Goya. In the Norton Simon MuseumPasadenaNorton Simon Museum2016pp. 186-201