Bullfight - Original Hand-Colored Etching by Antonio Carnicero - 1790
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Original etching by Antonio Carnicero (1748-1814), from his 1790 bullfighting series, hand-colored: a mounted rejoneador in the ring facing the bull as it comes out of the pen, with two cloaked figures in the foreground. Numbered "L I" at the upper left corner. Sold framed, with a mat.
Original etching by Antonio Carnicero (1748-1814), from his 1790 bullfighting series, hand-colored: a mounted rejoneador in the ring facing the bull as it comes out of the pen, with two cloaked figures in the foreground. Numbered "L I" at the upper left corner. Sold framed, with a mat.
The Coleccion de las principales suertes de una corrida de toros, drawn and engraved by Carnicero in 1790, is one of the first print series devoted entirely to the passes of the bullfight and a direct forerunner of Goya's Tauromaquia. Carnicero was court painter to Charles IV.
Medium: Etching, hand-colored.
Artist / engraver: Antonio Carnicero (1748-1814).
Date: 1790.
Source: La tauromaquia series (Coleccion de las principales suertes de una corrida de toros).
Dimensions: Plate mark 7.9 x 8.1 in (20 x 20.5 cm), per the old record.
Condition: Foxing scattered across the image area and the margins, clearly visible in the photograph. Framed with a mat.
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Original etching by Antonio Carnicero (1748-1814), from his 1790 bullfighting series, hand-colored: a mounted rejoneador in the ring facing the bull as it comes out of the pen, with two cloaked figures in the foreground. Numbered "L I" at the upper left corner. Sold framed, with a mat.