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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

The Celebrated Picador, Fernando del Toro, Draws the Fierce Beast on with His Pique, plate 27 from The Art of Bullfighting

1814/16, published 1816
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
20.4 × 32 cm (8 × 12.6 in)

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