Francisco GOYA y Lucientes
The very skilful Student of Falces, wrapped in his cape, tricks the bull with the play of his body
(El diestrísimo estudiante de Falces, embozado burla al toro con sus quiebros)
(c. 1815-1816); published 1876
plate 14 in La Tauromaquia (The Art of Bullfighting) series (c. 1815–16), published 1876

Medium
etching, aquatint, lavis, burnisher, drypoint and burin; reworking mainly in roulette

Measurements
26.8 × 37.1 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1949

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Harris 217.III.3

Edition
3rd edition

Printing/Publishing
published by Eugène Loizelet, Paris

Accession Number
2086-4

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The Art of Bullfighting

Titlepage

Portrait of Goya

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The way in which the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the open country

Another way of hunting on foot

The Moors settled in Spain, giving up the superstitions of the Koran, adopted this art of hunting, and spear a bull in the open country

They play another with the cape in an enclosure

The spirited Moor Gazul is the first to spear bulls according to rules

Origin of the harpoons or banderillas

A Spanish knight kills a bull after having lost his horse

Charles V spearing a bull in the ring at Valladolid

The rabble hamstring the bull with lances, sickles, banderillas and other weapons

The same man throws a bull in the ring at Madrid

The Moors use donkeys as a barrier to defend themselves against the bull whose horns have been tipped with balls

Another madness of his in the same ring

Dreadful events in the front rows of the ring at Madrid, and death of the mayor of Torrejon

Manly courage of the celebrated Pajuelera in (the ring) at Zaragoza

Mariano Ceballos, alias The Indian, kills the bull from his horse

The same Ceballos mounted on another bull breaks short spears in the ring at Madrid

A picador is unhorsed and falls under the bull

The celebrated picador Fernando del Toro draws the fierce beast on with his pique

The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with the pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid

Pepe Illo making the pass of the recorte

Banderillas with firecrackers

Two teams of picadors thrown one after the other by a single bull

A Spanish knight breaking short spears with the help of assistants

The dogs let loose on the bull

A bullfighter, mounted on the shoulders of an assistant, spearing a bull

Death of Pepe Hillo (3rd composition)

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