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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, and burin, with added roulette; posthumous printing
Dimensions Sheet: 32 x 49.5 cm (12 5/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Anonymous gift
Accession Number1982.730
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

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

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..."
ProvenanceYear-end gift.