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Bullfight, No.14:  The very skillful student of Falces, wrapped in his cape, tricks the bull with the play of his body
Bullfight, No.14: The very skillful student of Falces, wrapped in his cape, tricks the bull with the play of his body

Bullfight, No.14: The very skillful student of Falces, wrapped in his cape, tricks the bull with the play of his body

Series TitleLa Tauromaquia
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1816
MediumEtching with aquatint and intaglio media
DimensionsPlate: 9 5/8 × 13 7/8 inches (24.45 × 35.24 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number37-39/1
Edition/State/Proof1st ed.
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

[No known exhibitions at this time]

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

Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs, vol. 2 (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), no. 217, pp. 307, 328, (repro.), as El diestrísimo estudiante de Falces, embozado…burla al toro con sus quiebros. (The very skilful [sic] student of Falces, wrapped in his cape, tricks the bull with the play of his body).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 1178, pp. 258, 278, (repro.), as El diestrísimo estudiante de Falces, embozado…burla al toro con sus quiebros. (The very skilful [sic] student of Falces, wrapped in his cape, tricks the bull with the play of his body).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 14, p. 155, (repro.), as The very skilful [sic] student of Falces, wrapped in his cape, tricks the bull with the play of his body.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 314, as La Tauromaquia, Pl. 14: The very skillfull [sic] student of Falces, wrapped in his cape, tricks the bull with the play of his body.

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