Picador Gored by a Bull
Artist
Francisco de Goya
(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Date1825
Mediumlithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensionsimage: 31.4 × 41.5 cm (12 3/8 × 16 5/16 in.)
sheet: 43.9 × 56.5 cm (17 5/16 × 22 1/4 in.)
sheet: 43.9 × 56.5 cm (17 5/16 × 22 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMrs. Kingsmill Marrs Collection
Object number1926.680
DescriptionNo. 2 from Los Toros de Bordeos, 1825Label TextWhile most of the aquatints in Goya’s La Tauromaquia illustrate the courage and skill of the bullfight, his late Los toros de Burdeos lithographs present tragic, even barbaric aspects of the sport. The first of the three stages in a traditional bullfight is the picing, in which lancers or picadors, mounted on blindfolded horses, weaken the bull by plunging pics into the bull’s neck. In this case, though his colleagues stab the bull, and a torero on the ground bravely tries to distract the beast, one unfortunate picador is seriously gored.ProvenanceBy 1893, John J. Peoli [1825-1893], New York, NY. By 1926, Laura Norcross Marrs [1845-1926], Boston, MA; 1926, by bequest to the Worcester Art Museum.
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Francisco de Goya
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