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No. 28:  The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with a pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid
No. 28: The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with a pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid

No. 28: The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with a pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid

Series TitleLa Tauromaquia
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1816
MediumEtching with aquatint
DimensionsPlate: 9 7/8 × 13 7/8 inches (25.08 × 35.24 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 16 inches (28.89 × 40.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell
Object number57-115/32
Edition/State/Proof1st state, 1st ed.
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 23-November 20, 1983, no. 22, as The Brave Rendón Spearing a Bull.

Provenance

Robert B. Fizzell (1889-1978), Kansas City, MO, by December 14, 1957;

Given by Robert B. Fizzell to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1957.
Published References

Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs, vol. 2 (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), no. 231, p. 344, (repro.), as El esforzado Rendon picando un toro, de cuya suerte murió en la plaza de Madrid. (The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with the pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid.).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 1206, pp. 229, 258, 279, (repro.), as El esforzado Rendon picando un toro…de cuya suerte murió en la plaza de Madrid (The forceful Rendon stabbing the bull with his pique from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid) Tauromaquia 28.

[George L. McKenna], The Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), no. 22, as The Brave Rendón Spearing a Bull.

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 28, p. 164, (repro.), as The forceful Rendón stabs a bull with the pike, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 314, as La Tauromaquia, Pl. 28, The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with the pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid.

[George L. McKenna], The Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), no 22, p. 7.
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