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Francisco Goya y Lucientes

Five Etchings on Bullfighting, 1815-16

  • Author:
    Francisco Goya y Lucientes
  • Bio:
    Fuendetodos, Espanha, 1746-Bordeaux, França ,1828
  • Title:
    Five Etchings on Bullfighting
  • Date:
    1815-16
  • Medium:
    Água-forte
  • Dimensions:
    31,5 x 44,5 cm
  • Credit line:
    Doação Assis Chateaubriand, 1955
  • Object type:
    Gravura
  • Inventory number:
    MASP.06016
  • Photography credits:
    João Musa

TEXTS



Five Etchings about Bullfighting are five plates of the series of 33 etching engravings made by Goya in 1815, and published in 1816. The etchings in question bear the titles: A Spanish Gentleman Kills a Bull after Having Lost his Horse (Plate 9, G 287); The Famous Martincho Whirling a Bull in the “Plaza” in Madrid (Plate 16, G 288); The Moors Put up a Barricade of Donkeys to Protect themselves Against the Struggling Bull (Plate 17, G 289); Pepe Illo Saluting the Bull (Plate 29, G 290); and Throwing Dogs to the Bull (Plate 25, G 291). The series was created at the time when Goya was cleared of suspicions of collaboration with the newly-expelled French occupiers, and his thematic might, to a certain extent, reflect his intention of reiterating his Hispanic roots.

— Unknown authorship, 1998

Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).



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