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Cheval renversé par un taureau. (Horse thrown by a bull); rejected plate [B] for the series "Tauromaquia" (Bullfighting)
Drawn and etched 1815–16; printed 1876
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished aquatint, and drypoint; posthumous printing
Dimensions
Sheet: 32.1 x 47.8 cm (12 5/8 x 18 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1974.291
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 238, III, 1; Delteil 0258
DescriptionPosthumous printing, Paris, 1876 edition by Loizelet.
This plate was never published by Goya and the reverse was used to make plate 2 of the published series. It was first published with a French title in Paris by Loizelet in 1876 with the rest of the series with the title "La Taureaumachie/ Receuil de quarante estampes inventées et gravées à l'eau-forte/ Par Don Francisco Goya y Lucientes/ Paris/ Loizelet, Rue des Beaux-Arts, 12" or "La Tauromachie/ Receuil de Quarante Estampes/ Representant/ Différentes manieres et feintes de l'art de combattre les Taureaux..."
This plate was never published by Goya and the reverse was used to make plate 2 of the published series. It was first published with a French title in Paris by Loizelet in 1876 with the rest of the series with the title "La Taureaumachie/ Receuil de quarante estampes inventées et gravées à l'eau-forte/ Par Don Francisco Goya y Lucientes/ Paris/ Loizelet, Rue des Beaux-Arts, 12" or "La Tauromachie/ Receuil de Quarante Estampes/ Representant/ Différentes manieres et feintes de l'art de combattre les Taureaux..."
Marks
PDP Watermark Type: Watermark: fragment of Arches
ProvenanceW.G. Russell Allen (1882-1955), Boston; bequest April 1974