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The Very Skilful Student of Falces, Wrapped in his Cape, Tricks the Bull with the Play of his Body, plate 14 from The Art of Bullfighting
Francisco José de Goya y LucientesLinkedCulture matchlcp-996a1e74ef53
- Date
- 1814/16, published 1816
- Medium
- Etching, aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 123722
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- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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