Tauromaquia: The Moors Use Donkeys As a Barrier to Defend Themselves Against the Bull Whose Horns Have Been Tipped with Balls (Palenque de los Moros con Burros Para Defenderse del Toro Embolado)
1816
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)
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Details

  • Artist Name: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)
  • Title: Tauromaquia: The Moors Use Donkeys As a Barrier to Defend Themselves Against the Bull Whose Horns Have Been Tipped with Balls (Palenque de los Moros con Burros Para Defenderse del Toro Embolado)
  • Date: 1816
  • Medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis, drypoint, and burin on laid paper
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Dimensions: sheet: 12 9/16 x 17 1/2 in. (31.91 x 44.45 cm); plate: 9 5/8 x 13 3/4 in. (24.45 x 34.92 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
  • Accession Number: M.1974.11.1.17.G
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation

Object Information

(Sale, Bern, Kornfeld und Klipstein, 13 June 1974, lot 333, through);
[Robert M. Light, Boston, for];
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
  • Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1059 p. 367
  • Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Goya in the Norton Simon Museum, 2016, cat. 75 p. 270

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Copies after Velázquez: Un infante de España (Infante Don Fernando) Francisco de Goya y Lucientes c. 1778-79
Desastres de la Guerra Francisco de Goya y Lucientes c. 1810-15

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