Plate 23 from "La Tauromaquia": Mariano Ceballos, alias the Indian, kills the bull from his horse, Francisco de Goya

Plate 23 from "La Tauromaquia": Mariano Ceballos, alias the Indian, kills the bull from his horse

Plate 23 from "La Tauromaquia": Mariano Ceballos, alias the Indian, kills the bull from his horse (museum title)

Francisco de Goya (Spanish) (1746-1828)

Movement: Romanticism
Date: 1816
Medium: Etching, burnished aquatint
Dimensions: 25 × 35.2 cm
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights: Public domain
Photograph: Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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Bullfighter Horse Bull Animal Arena Horseman Bullfight Crowd Onlooker Tier Gate Man Figure Combat Riding Leaning Saddle Movement Group Monochrome Gray Brown Dark Cape Clothing Struggle

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Plate 28 of "La Tauromaquia": The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with the pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid

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Plate 30 from "La Tauromaquia": Pedro Romero killing the halted bull

Plate 30 from "La Tauromaquia": Pedro Romero killing the halted bull

Plate 32 from "La Tauromaquia": Two teams of picadors thrown one after the other by a single bull

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Plate 33 from "La Tauromaquia": The unlucky death of Pepe Illo in the ring at Madrid

Plate 33 from "La Tauromaquia": The unlucky death of Pepe Illo in the ring at Madrid

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