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Bullfight, No. 21:  Dreadful events in the front row of the ring at Madrid and the death of the mayor of Torrejon
Bullfight, No. 21: Dreadful events in the front row of the ring at Madrid and the death of the mayor of Torrejon

Bullfight, No. 21: Dreadful events in the front row of the ring at Madrid and the death of the mayor of Torrejon

Series TitleLa Tauromaquia
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1816
MediumEtching and aquatint on paper with intaglio media
DimensionsPlate: 9 9/16 × 12 1/2 inches (24.29 × 31.75 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 16 1/8 inches (28.89 × 40.96 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number37-39/3
Edition/State/Proof1st ed.
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Spanish Exhibition, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK, 1940.

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, December 4, 1937;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1937.

Published References
A collection of catalogs, vol. 1, Spanish Exhibition (Tulsa, OK: Philbrook Art Center, 1940).


Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs, vol. 2 (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), no. 224, pp. 307, 336, (repro.), as Desgracias acaecidas en el tendido de la plaza de Madrid, y muerte del alcalde de Torrejon. (Dreadful events in the front row of the ring at Madrid and the death of the mayor of Torrejon).


Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 1192, pp. 228-29, 258, 278, (repro.), as Desgracias acaecides en el tendido…de la plaza de Madrid, y muerte del alcalde de Torrejon. (Dreadful incidents which occurred in the front rows of the ring at Madrid and death of the mayor of Torrejon).


Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 21, p. 160, (repro.), as Dreadful events in the front rows of the ring at Madrid and the death of the mayor of Torrejón.


George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 314, as La Tauromaquia, Pl. 21: Dreadful events in the front row of the ring at Madrid and the death of the mayor of Torrejon.





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