El caballo raptor (The Horse-Abductor)

in or after 1816

Francisco Goya

Associated Names
Francisco Goya

Artist, Spanish, 1746 - 1828

This is a drawing of a person being tossed by a wild horse. The image shows a figure being thrown backward off a rearing horse, with the horse's head turned away from the viewer. The figure is upside down, with arms flailing and a slightly distressed expression on its face. The background is minimalistic, composed primarily of varying shades of monochrome.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint [trial proof printed posthumously circa 1854-1863]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 24.5 x 35.7 cm (9 5/8 x 14 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 30.5 x 46.4 cm (12 x 18 1/4 in.)
    image: 21.1 x 31.9 cm (8 5/16 x 12 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1951.10.52

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Harris 1964, no. 257, State II (trial proof/posthumous)

  • Series Title

    Los Proverbios (Disparates) [plate 10]

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1960

  • Fantasy in the Prints of Goya, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1960, no. 53.

2001

  • Goya: Images of Women, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002, no. 126, as Disparate desenfrenado (Unbridled Folly).

Bibliography

1964

  • Harris, Tomás. Goya: engravings and lithographs. 2 vols. Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964.

2001

  • Goya: Images of Women. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 126.

Wikidata ID

Q65223754

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