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Un caballero español en plaza quebrando rejoncillos sin auxilio de los chulos. (A Spanish noble, without help of assistants, breaks short rejónes (spears) in the plaza); from the series "Tauromaquia" (Bullfighting), plate 13
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1815–16
Medium/Technique
Etching and drypoint, working proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 24.5 x 35.2 cm (9 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 32 x 43.5 cm (12 5/8 x 17 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 32 x 43.5 cm (12 5/8 x 17 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Christopher Tunnard in honor of Eleanor Sayre and by exchange from the Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1973.705
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 216, I, 1; Delteil 0236
DescriptionWorking proof before burin and aquatint (H. I, 1).
Marks
SERRA
Provenance
M. Gonzalez Marti; Georges Provôt sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 10, 1935, lot 92; Maurice Gobin (b. 1883 - d. 1962), Paris dealer; 1936 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.
M. Gonzalez Marti; Georges Provôt sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 10, 1935, lot 92; Maurice Gobin (b. 1883 - d. 1962), Paris dealer; 1936 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.