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Les chiens lâché sur le taureau. (The dogs let loose on the bull); rejected plate [C] for the series "Tauromaquia" (Bullfighting)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1815–16
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis, and drypoint; posthumous printing
Dimensions
Sheet: 31.5 x 44.8 cm (12 3/8 x 17 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard
Accession NumberM27941
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 239, III, 3-4; Delteil 0259
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 6 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 6 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