This anonymous composition by a follower of Francisco de Goya is one of a series of bullfighting scenes in various collections, including one in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and another in a private collection in Madrid, all of which are similar in style and technique. They are inspired, with varying degrees of fidelity, by the Goyaesque lithographs known as the Bordeaux Bulls of late 1824. The Prado work depicts the suerte de picadores, with two of them on horseback lunging at the bull, while another gored horse lies dying on the ground.
Collection: Images
Project: 11. Science and culture as representation in Europe., 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
Chronology: XIX
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Resource type: Image
Format: Oil on canvas (38 x 46 cm)
Source: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Language: Spanish
Date: 1825
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Identifier: P003047
Copyright: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Abstract: Scene of a bullfight in 19th century Spain
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