Plate 12 from "La Tauromaquia": The crowd hamstrings the bull with lances, sickles, banderillas and other arms
Medium
Etching, aquatint, drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 9 13/16 x 13 3/4 in. (25 x 35 cm) Sheet: 9 3/4 × 17 5/16 in. (24.8 × 44 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.19.12
Tags
MenBulls
About the Artist
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker considered the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Rising from modest provincial origins to become First Court Painter to Charles IV, Goya's career spanned the Enlightenment's optimism and the brutal Napoleonic invasion that shattered it. A mysterious illness in 1793 left him permanently deaf and ...