The hard-working Rendón stinging a bull whose fate killed him in the bullring in Madrid (preparatory drawing).

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Preparatory drawing of the print The hard-working Rendón stinging a bull whose fate killed him in the bullring in Madrid. The scene depicts a serious mishap during the suerte de varas, when the picadors punish the bull to weaken it. This preparatory study is very similar to what Goya would later engrave on the plate.

As in the print, we see a bullring full of spectators, although almost all of them are sketchy. Goya only goes into detail on the bull, the picador and the horse in the foreground, especially the postures of the animals, depicted in full fight. The bull is lunging towards the horse, who is turning his head to prevent the bull from charging him and ramming his horns into his neck. At the same time, we can see how the picador is also turned forwards in order to have a better posture and to thrust his pike into the bull. Surrounding the picador and the bull are a series of labourers whose mission is to remove the bull with their capes in order to drive the beast towards the other picador or to keep it away from the horse in case it attacks.

The scene gains in movement in the engraving due to the effect of the light, which gives greater depth to the sand. In the background we can see that Goya has sketched the barrier of the bullring, which some of the figures jump over.