The Art of Bullfighting

The Art of Bullfighting
(La Tauromaquia)
(c. 1815-1816); published 1876

Francisco GOYA y Lucientes

Eugène LOIZELET (reworked by)

Medium: book: etching, aquatint, lavis, burnisher, drypoint and burin; reworking mainly in roulette
Measurements: 26.8 × 37.1 cm (sheet) 33.7 × 50.7 × 2.0 cm (volume)
Catalogue/s Raisonné: Harris.III.3-243.III.3
Edition: 3rd edition
Printing/Publishing: published by Eugène Loizelet, Paris
Inscription: titlepage: printed in ink: LA TAUREAUMACHIE / RECUEIL DE QUARANTE ESTAMPES INVENTÉE ET GRAVÉES A L'EAU-FORTE / PAR DON FRANCISCO COYA Y LUCIENTES / PARIS / LOIZELET, RUE DES BEAUX-ARTES, 12.
inscribed in pencil on upper endpaper, by Harold Wright: C.19220 (Colnaghi's stock number) / F. Goya / (1746–1828) La Tauromachia series / 4th Edn (Loizelet, 1876) (with 2 extra impressions of the portrait) / (from the collection of Felix Braquemond, the French etcher) / The complete set of 40 plates as issued by Loizelet, 1876 / Loys Delteil, "Les Peintres-Graveurs Français", vol. XV. Nos 224–263
Accession Number: 2086-4
Department: International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1949
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location: Not on display

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Titlepage

Portrait of Goya

Contents page

The way in which the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the open country

Another way of hunting on foot

The Moors settled in Spain, giving up the superstitions of the Koran, adopted this art of hunting, and spear a bull in the open country

They play another with the cape in an enclosure

The spirited Moor Gazul is the first to spear bulls according to rules

Origin of the harpoons or banderillas

A Moor caught by the bull in the ring

Charles V spearing a bull in the ring at Valladolid

The rabble hamstring the bull with lances, sickles, banderillas and other weapons

The very skilful Student of Falces, wrapped in his cape, tricks the bull with the play of his body

The famous Martincho places the 'banderillas' playing the bull with the movement of his body

The Moors use donkeys as a barrier to defend themselves against the bull whose horns have been tipped with balls

Another madness of his in the same ring

The agility and audacity of Juanito Apiñani in (the ring) at Madrid

Manly courage of the celebrated Pajuelera in (the ring) at Zaragoza

The same Ceballos mounted on another bull breaks short spears in the ring at Madrid

A picador is unhorsed and falls under the bull

The celebrated picador Fernando del Toro draws the fierce beast on with his pique

The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with the pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid

Pepe Illo making the pass of the recorte

Banderillas with firecrackers

Two teams of picadors thrown one after the other by a single bull

A Spanish knight breaking short spears with the help of assistants

Horse thrown by a bull

A bullfighter, mounted on the shoulders of an assistant, spearing a bull

Death of Pepe Hillo (3rd composition)

Fight in a carriage harnessed to two mules