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Un caballero español mata un toro despues de haber perdid el caballo. (A Spanish noble kills a bull after he has lost his horse); from the series "Tauromaquia" (Bullfighting), plate 9


Otro Caballero español, desputes de haber perdido el Caballo, mata el Toro á pie con suma gallardia.
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1815–16

Medium/Technique Etching; working proof
Dimensions Image and Sheet: 19.6 x 31.2 cm (7 11/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Marshall Dwinnell and the M. and M. Karolik Fund
Accession Number1973.704
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 212, I, 1; Delteil 0232
DescriptionWorking proof before burin and aquatint (H. I, 1).
Marks No watermark
Provenance
M. Lhardy; Georges Provôt sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 10, 1935, lot 91; Maurice Gobin (b. 1883 - d. 1962), Paris dealer; June 1935 Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984) and his wife, Frances L. Hofer (b. 1908–d. 1978), Cambridge, MA; 1974, sold by Mr. and Mrs. Hofer, through R. M. Light, dealer (b. 1929 - d. 2016), Boston and Santa Barbara, CA, to the MFA. (original vote June 13, 1973)

Note: source: Philip Hofer's annotated copy of the Provôt sale in MFA library.