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Combat dans une voiture attelèe de deux mulets. (Flight in a carriage harnessed to two mules); rejected plate [G] for the series "Tauromaquia" (Bullfighting)

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1815–16; printed late 19th century

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished lavis or mottled tint, drypoint, burin, and posthumous roulette; posthumous printing
Dimensions Sheet: 31.2 x 45.4 cm (12 5/16 x 17 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Francis Bullard
Accession NumberM21239.34
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 243, III, 3-4; Delteil 0263
DescriptionPosthumous printing, late 19th century printing (H. III, 3-4).

This plate was never published by Goya and the reverse was used to make plate 22 of the published series. It was first published with a French title in Paris by Loizelet in 1876 with the rest of the series with the title "La Taureaumachie/ Receuil de quarante estampes inventées et gravées à l'eau-forte/ Par Don Francisco Goya y Lucientes/ Paris/ Loizelet, Rue des Beaux-Arts, 12" or "La Tauromachie/ Receuil de Quarante Estampes/ Representant/ Différentes manieres et feintes de l'art de combattre les Taureaux..."
ProvenanceFrancis Bullard (1862-1913), Boston; gift January 1910