La desgraciada muerte de Pepe Illo en la plaza de Madrid (The Unlucky Death of Pepe Illo in the Ring at Madrid)

in or before 1816

Francisco Goya

Associated Names
Francisco Goya

Artist, Spanish, 1746 - 1828

This is a print depicting a bull in an arena with a fallen person on the ground. Another person is nearby, holding a dark cloth towards the bull. The black bull stands in the center of the print with its head lowered to the left, one of its horns appearing to impale the neck or chest of a person on the ground wearing stained white clothes. This person faces away from us, but we can see their pale skin and short, dark hair. In the background, there are outlines of spectators attempting to climb over a wall to get to the central people. The background of the print is light gray, with an area of darker gray around the person on the ground.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin [first edition impression]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1652

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Harris 1964, no. 236, State III(1)

Associated Artworks

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Modo con que los antiguos Espanoles cazaban los toros a caballo en el campo (The Way in which the Ancient Spaniards Hunted Bulls on Horseback in the Open Country)

Francisco Goya

1816

La Tauromaquia (The Bullfight)

Francisco Goya

1816

This print depicts two men impaling a bull in an open gray landscape. The bull is in the center of the two men, facing us, with its head lowered. The two men are stabbing the bull with long weapons that they each hold with both hands. The man on the left appears to have dark skin with a white hat and shirt, while the man on the right has pale skin with a dark hat and shirt. The background shows a natural landscape with minimal detail. The ground the figures stand on appears to be near a body of water, although that is unclear. Low hills surround them, with a patch of trees visible against a cloudy sky.

Otro modo de cazar a pie (Another Way of Hunting on Foot)

Francisco Goya

1816

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1964

  • Harris, Tomás. Goya: engravings and lithographs. 2 vols. Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964.

Wikidata ID

Q64956285

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