Francisco de Goya

Two groups of bullfighters being run over at once by a single bull (preparatory drawing 2).

Clasificación
Two groups of bullfighters being run over at once by a single bull (preparatory drawing 2).
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1814 - 1816
Ubicación
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Dimensiones
182 x 313 mm
Técnica y soporte
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Ficha: realización/revisión
03 Oct 2021 / 22 Jun 2023
Inventario
(Inv. 38541)
Otros títulos:


Historia

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

Line of provenance: [José Atanasio Echeverría, Mexico]; Julian Benjamin Williams, Seville (d. 1866); John Wetherell (?) (d. 1865); Horatio / Nathan Wetherell (?) (until 1874); Frederick William Cosens, London (1874-1890); Sotheby's, London, auction of Frederick William Cosens' estates (11-21 November 1890); Bernard Quaritch Ltd, London (November 1890-July 1891); acquired by the Hamburger Kunsthalle on 14 July 1891.

This is one of the four preparatory drawings for Bullfighting and its Extensions held by the Hamburger Kunsthalle (28a, 32b, Ea and Ka) and one of the few of the series and its extensions not in the Prado Museum, Madrid.

Análisis artístico

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

Second of the two preparatory drawings for the print Two groups of bullfighters being run over at once by a single bull. This is one of the four preparatory drawings for the series of engravings of the Bullfightings and its extensions, which mixes sanguine with red wash (27a, 32b, Ea and Ka).

In this case the scene, which covers the whole of the space that will later be represented in the print, is very confusing. There are a large number of figures in the bullring, although the central part can be clearly distinguished, where we can see how the bull charges a horse that is falling to the ground at that moment with the picador still on it, while some of the labourers are holding the picador and helping him to stick the pike into the bull to see if he will leave the equine, whose guts he has pulled out. This central group thus resolved differs somewhat from the one in the first preparatory drawing, but is quite close to the one in the later print.

Some other elements present in this drawing are retained with notable fidelity in the engraving, such as the two dead horses in the background and the group of labourers carrying away the wounded picador from the dead horse on the left. It should be remembered that in the first preparatory drawing only one of the dead horses appeared and in a different position, and that in the print, as established here, both will be present.

Lafuente Ferrari raises certain doubts about the authorship of this drawing.

Exposiciones
  • Hamburg
    1966
  • Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)
    Hamburger Kunsthalle
    Hamburg
    1980
  • Hamburg
    1989
  • Hamburg
    2001
  • Dallas
    2014
  • Hamburg
    2019
Bibliografía
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    1946
    pp. 177-216, espec. pp. 206-207
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 183
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    ParísLe Club Français du Livre
    1963
    p. 138
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 279, cat. 1215
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Barcelona
    1974
    p. 17
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    pp. 398-399, cat. 274
  • MATILLA, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    2001
    pp. 95-97
  • www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de, consulted 13-04-10
    13-04-10
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