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Etching of a mounted rider in a bullring with two horses, one rearing and one galloping, spectators watching from the wall behind.

Mounted Spanish Knight Breaking Spears in the Ring, Bullfighting Plate 13

An etching shows a mounted rider in a hat and short cloak in a bullring, with a horse rearing at the left and a second horse galloping away at the right. Spectators line the barrier wall above, and a sandy ground fills the foreground under a pale, open sky.

Artist
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Date
1814/16, published 1816
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 1236 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1816).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Charles Deering Collection