Cleveland Museum of Art
Bullfights: Frontispiece
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1816, printed 1876
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 105409
From LinkedCulture
Goya didn't place his self-portrait in a calm studio. He put it in the middle of a bullring. In this 1816 engraving, a formal oval portrait of him in a tricorn hat sits on a stone plinth, while on either side, a bullfighter wrestles a charging bull and a horse rears and falls, crowds pressing against the barriers behind. It's his way of saying he wasn't just observing the chaos of the Tauromaquia series, he was inside it.
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A portrait of Francisco Goya is displayed on a pedestal surrounded by a crowd of spectators.
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- Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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