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[The Moors use Donkeys as a Barrier to Defend Themselves against the Bull Whose Horns Have Been Tipped with Balls.]
Goya, Francisco de
Fuendetodos, Saragossa, 30/03/1746-Bordeaux, France, 16/04/1828
Etching, aquatint, drypoint and burin on paper
31.3 x 47.9 cm (sheet) 24.4 x 35.2 cm (plate)
1815-1816
First quarter of the 19th century
82/834-17
Acquired in 1931
Selected bibliography
- Le peintre et l'arene : art et tauromachie de Goya à Barceló [Cat. exp.]. Milano, Silvana, 2014. pp. 54-55, il.
- Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique. Goya : gravures et lithographies : oeuvre complet. París, Arts et métiers graphiques, 1961. p. 186.
- Harris, Tomas. Goya : engravings and lithographs. Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1964. p. 332.
- Paas-Zeidler, Sigrun. Goya : caprichos, desastres, tauromaquia, disparates : reproducción completa de las cuatro series . Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1980. p. 176.
- 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. 312, nº cat. 121.
- Goya : estampas de invención : Caprichos, Desastres, Tauromaquia y Disparates [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2012. p. 182.