Cleveland Museum of Art
Bullfights: The Celebrated Picador, Fernando del Toro, Draws the Fierce Beast on with his Pique
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1816, printed 1876
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 105452
From LinkedCulture
This is the exact moment Fernando del Toro, one of Spain's most celebrated picadors, levels his long pike at a charging black bull. Francisco de Goya captured this scene in 1816 as part of his series La Tauromaquia, using etching and aquatint to pull the arena into deep shadow, making the mounted figure and the bull almost glow against the darkness. To the left, a rearing horse and fallen figure hint at the chaos already in motion. Goya turned a spectator sport into something that feels genuinely dangerous.
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A bullfighting scene with riders on horses and a bull in the foreground.
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