# Goring at a Village Bullfight [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LUCAS VELÁZQUEZ, Eugenio]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 114 x 185 cm ## Commentary Eugenio Lucas Velázquez was the foremost practitioner of Goya's style in the middle years of the 19th century, as illustrated by the present painting on a favourite theme from Goya's universe: the world of bullfighting. Lucas inherited Goya's enthusiasm, reinterpreting diverse aspects of the sport in an absolutely personal language. The present painting illustrates the tragic moment when a bull attacks the bullfighter, whose gored body lies by the animal's front legs. The scene takes place during a bullfight in the spacious square of a small village of poorly built, rundown houses next to a poplar grove, whose svelte outline is silhouetted against a clear sky crossed by clouds. The painting, signed in Madrid in 1855, is from the most accomplished mature period in Eugenio Lucas's artistic career. ## Related artworks - [Maja with a Small Dog]() - [The Communion]() - [The Defence of Saragossa]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()