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Mort de Pepe Illo (Death of Pepe Illo) [Second Composition]; rejected plate [E] for the series "Tauromaquia" (Bullfighting)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1815–16; late 19th century printing
Medium/Technique
Etching, aquatint, burnished lavis, drypoint, and burin, with added roulette; posthumous printing
Dimensions
Sheet: 31.1 x 45 cm (12 1/4 x 17 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard
Accession NumberM27939
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 241, III, 3-4; Delteil 0261
DescriptionPosthumous printing, late 19th c. printing (H. III, 3-4).
This plate was never published by Goya and the reverse was used to make plate 11 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..."
This plate was never published by Goya and the reverse was used to make plate 11 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..."
ProvenanceKatherine Eliot Bullard (1866-1920), Boston; gift May 1919