On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P00744
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- A Picador
- Chronology
- Ca. 1795
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 57 cm x 47 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- COLECCION REAL
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
An equestrian portrait of a
picador, wearing a short
bullfighting suit and hat and
carrying a long pike. The
background is a landscape with a
river.
X-rays of this work show that this
picador is painted over an
equestrian portrait of Manuel
Godoy, who wears the sash of the
Order of Carlos III, which he
received in 1791, and the
three-cornered hat of Commander of
the Lifeguards, a title he received
when he was named Duke of Alcudia
in 1792.
The over-painting, by an unknown
hand, dates from around 1808, when
Godoy fell from grace.
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