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Plate 5 from "La Tauromaquia": The spirited Moor Gazul is the first to spear bulls according to the rules, Francisco de Goya

Plate 5 from "La Tauromaquia": The spirited Moor Gazul is the first to spear bulls according to the rules

Plate 5 from "La Tauromaquia": The spirited Moor Gazul is the first to spear bulls according to the rules (museum title)

Francisco de Goya (Spanish) (1746-1828)

Movement
Romanticism
Date
1816
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint
Dimensions
24.7 × 35.2 cm
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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