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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A Picador is Unhorsed and Falls under the Bull, plate 26 from The Art of Bullfighting

1814/16, published 1816
Etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint on ivory laid paper
20.3 × 31 cm (8 × 12.2 in)

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