- Cronología
- 1793
- Ubicación
- Abelló Collection, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 42 x 31 cm
- Técnica y soporte
- Oil on tin
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Undisputed work
- Titular
- Abelló Collection
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 28 Apr 2010 / 14 Jun 2023
- Inventario
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- Otros títulos:
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A Pass of the Cape
This work was painted during Goya's stay in Cádiz and was given to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in January 1794.
In a bullring, perhaps that of Madrid, filled with spectators, we see in the foreground a torero who has his back to us and is holding his cape in both hands as the bull lunges past him. According to Gassier, this type of pass was invented in Goya's time by the famous torero José Delgado (1754-1801), better known as "Pepe-Hillo", who described it in his book entitled The Art of Bullfighting or Tauromachy (Arte de torear o La tauromaquia). Behind the bullfighter, a group of bulls are being herded towards the doors to the bullpen by a picador mounted on horseback.
Using deft brushstrokes, Goya has suggested the figures in the stands only very superficially, representing in much greater detail those in the foreground, and especially the torero himself. The dabs of white on his suit create tiny highlights which further contribute to increasing this figure's importance within the scene. The bullfight is taking place in the afternoon, and we can see how the shadow has begun to invade the left-hand side of the stands.
For more information, see Bulls in the Meadow.
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GoyaMusée Jacquemart-AndréParís1961consultant editor Jean-Gabriel Domergue. From December 1961 to February 1962cat. 12
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Goya: toros y torerosEspace Van GoghArles1990displayed also at Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, consultant editor Pierre Gassier.cat. 6
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Goya. El Capricho y la Invención. Cuadros de gabinete, bocetos y miniaturasMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1993from November 18th 1993 to February 15th 1994. Exhibited also at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 18th to June 12th 1994 and The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, July 16th to October 16th 1994, consultant editors Manuela B. Mena Marqués and Juliet Wilson-Bareaucat. 36
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GoyaBasle2021p. 144
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Madrid in the Abelló CollectionMadrid2023fig. 12
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L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 volsParís1928-1950p. 178, cat. 133
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 169, cat. 321
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BarcelonaPolígrafa1970vol. I, p. 278, cat. 273
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L’opera pittorica completa di GoyaMilanRizzoli1974p. 106, cat. 273
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Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja1980-1982vol. II, p. 81
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Goya, toros y torerosMadridMinisterio de Cultura, Comunidad de Madrid1990pp. 60 y 61 (il.), cat. 6
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Goya. El capricho y la invención. Cuadros de gabinete, bocetos y miniaturasMadridMuseo del Prado1993p. 191, 192, 193 y 198 (il.), cat. 36
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“Moors and the Bullfight: History and National Identity in Goya's Tauromaquia”Burlington magazineLondon2008p. 195, il. 3
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Los mundos de Goya (1746-1828)BarcelonaLunwerg2008p. 239
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MadridEdiciones El Viso2023p. 19