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Image Not Available for The Cid Campeador Spearing Another Bull (El Cid Campeador lanceando otro toro) (plate 11)
The Cid Campeador Spearing Another Bull (El Cid Campeador lanceando otro toro) (plate 11)
Image Not Available for The Cid Campeador Spearing Another Bull (El Cid Campeador lanceando otro toro) (plate 11)

The Cid Campeador Spearing Another Bull (El Cid Campeador lanceando otro toro) (plate 11)

Artist (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Date1816
Mediumetching and aquatint on cream laid paper
Dimensionsplate: 25 x 35.1 cm; sheet: 32.1 x 43.8 cm
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineSarah C. Garver Fund
Object number1965.27
Label TextThe earliest record of a public bullfight dates from 1090, part of the wedding celebrations of princess Urraca of Castille to Raymond of Burgundy. However, Goya perpetuated the legend that El Cid Campeador was the first Castilian to fight a bull on horseback in a public ring. The artist represented the legendary knight and general of the eleventh century with vaguely historical costume and caparison similar to that of his print of Charles V, who lived four hundred years later. To Goya’s audience historical accuracy made little difference to nationalist legend.ProvenanceCraddock and Barnard, London, UK
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Francisco de Goya
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Francisco de Goya
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Image Not Available for The Way in which the Ancient Spaniards Hunted Bulls on Horseback in the Open Country (Modo con que los antiguos Espanoles cazaban los toros a caballo en el campo) Plate 1
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Image Not Available for A Spanish Knight Kills the Bull After Having Lost His Horse (Un caballero Español mata un toro despues perdido el caballo) (plate 9)
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Francisco de Goya
1816
Image Not Available for They Play Another with the Cape in an Enclosure (Capean otro encerrado),(plate 4)
They Play Another with the Cape in an Enclosure (Capean otro encerrado),(plate 4)
Francisco de Goya
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Image Not Available for Another Way of Hunting on Foot (Otro modo de cazar á pie) (plate 2)
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Francisco de Goya
1816
Image Not Available for Si son de otro linage (Perhaps they are of another breed); plate 61 from Disasters of War
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The Moors make a Different Play in the Ring Calling the Bull with their Burnous ( Los Moros hacen otro capeo en plaza con su albornoz) (plate 6)
Francisco de Goya
1816
Image Not Available for Two Teams of Picadors Thrown One After the Other by a Single Bull (Dos grupos de picadores arrollados de seguida por un solo toro) (plate 32)
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Francisco de Goya
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