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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

The Famous Martincho Places the Banderillas, Playing the Bull with the Movement of his Body, plate 15 from The Art of Bullfighting

1814/16, published 1816
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
20.2 × 31.2 cm (8 × 12.3 in)

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