Cleveland Museum of Art
Bullfights: The Death of Pepe Illo (3rd Composition)
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1816, printed 1876
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 105464
From LinkedCulture
In 1801, the celebrated matador Pepe Illo was gored to death in a Madrid bullring, and Goya could not let it go. This 1816 engraving from his La Tauromaquia series is his third and most compressed return to that moment - a massive dark bull dominates the left as a figure is thrown at the arena's center, with spectators barely visible in the shadowed barrier behind. Goya's brooding tonal contrasts transform what could be sports documentation into something far darker: a fixation on public death.
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A group of riders on horseback in a dark, enclosed arena.
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- Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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