Francisco Goya

Dreadful events in the front rows of the ring at Madrid, and death of the mayor of Torrejón, plate 21 from The Art of Bullfighting

1814/16, published 1816

Dating

Date range

Held at

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 21 × 32 cm (8 5/16 × 12 5/8 in.); Plate: 24.7 × 35.5 cm (9 3/4 × 14 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 44.4 cm (12 11/16 × 17 1/2 in.)

Collection no.

1927.3378.21

Attribution

By the artist