About This Artwork

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Spanish, 1746-1828

A Spanish mounted knight in the ring breaking short spears without the help of assistants, plate 13 from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816

Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
202 x 306 mm (image); 247 x 357 mm (plate); 320 x 445 mm (sheet)
The Charles Deering Collection, 1927.3378.13

Harris 216 III/III (1st edition); Delteil 236 III/IV; Gassier and Wilson III.1176; Pérez Sánchez & Gállego 13