[The Celebrated Picador, Fernando del Toro, Draws the Fierce Beast on with His Pike.] - Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

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[The Celebrated Picador, Fernando del Toro, Draws the Fierce Beast on with His Pike.]

Goya, Francisco de

Fuendetodos, Saragossa, 30/03/1746-Bordeaux, France, 16/04/1828

Etching, aquatint, drypoint and burin on paper

31.4 x 47.9 cm (sheet) 24.4 x 35 cm (plate)

1815-1816

First quarter of the 19th century

82/834-27

Acquired in 1931

Selected bibliography

  • Le peintre et l'arene : art et tauromachie de Goya à Barceló [Cat. exp.]. Milano, Silvana, 2014. p. 57, il.
  • Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique. Goya : gravures et lithographies : oeuvre complet. París, Arts et métiers graphiques, 1961. p. 196.
  • Harris, Tomas. Goya : engravings and lithographs. Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1964. p. 343.
  • Paas-Zeidler, Sigrun. Goya : caprichos, desastres, tauromaquia, disparates : reproducción completa de las cuatro series . Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1980. p. 185.
  • Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique. La Tauromaquia. Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1981. [s.p.]
  • Taurus : del mito al ritual [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2010. p. 314, nº cat. 131.
  • Goya : estampas de invención : Caprichos, Desastres, Tauromaquia y Disparates [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2012. p. 187.