Cleveland Museum of Art
Bullfights: A Spanish Mounted Knight in the Ring Breaking Short Spears Without the Help of Assistants
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1816, printed 1876
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 105438
From LinkedCulture
This print captures a moment from a vanished era, when Spanish noblemen on horseback, not matadors on foot, were the stars of the bullfight. Goya etched this scene in 1816 as plate 13 of his Tauromaquia series, printed here in 1876. A richly costumed caballero in a ruffled collar and wide-brimmed hat rides a dark, muscular horse while a bull charges from the right, spectators watching from behind the barrier wall. Goya treated bullfighting as history worth preserving, not just spectacle worth celebrating.
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- Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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