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Cheval renversé par un taureau. (Horse thrown by a bull); rejected plate [B] for the series "Tauromaquia" (Bullfighting)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1815–16; printed late 19th century
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished sulfur tint or aquatint, and drypoint, and burin; posthumous printing
Dimensions
Sheet: 31.5 x 44.9 cm (12 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard
Accession NumberM27943
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 238, III, 3-4; Delteil 0258
DescriptionPosthumous printing, late 19th century printing (H. III, 3-4).
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..."
ProvenanceKatherine Eliot Bullard (1866-1920), Boston; gift May 1919