Francisco Goya

The Celebrated Picador, Fernando del Toro, Draws the Fierce Beast on with His Pique, plate 27 from The Art of Bullfighting

1814/16, published 1816

Dating

Date range

Held at

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

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

Dimensions

Image: 20.4 × 32 cm (8 1/16 × 12 5/8 in.); Plate: 24.5 × 35.2 cm (9 11/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 32.1 × 44.7 cm (12 11/16 × 17 5/8 in.)

Collection no.

1927.3378.27

Attribution

By the artist