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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A Spanish knight kills the bull after having lost his horse, plate nine from The Art of Bullfighting

1814/16, published 1816
Etching, burnished aquatint and burin on ivory laid paper
20.4 × 31.3 cm (8 × 12.3 in)

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