"Les Pegas" (First of nine): Followed closely by a second, the leading toreador challenges the beast. The bull is decorated with the beribboned darts called "banderilles."

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"Les Pegas" (Fifth of nine): ...but not for long. The animal is tough and won't give up without a terrific battle.

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"Les Pegas" (Ninth-- End of set): The bullfight ends after the toreador has grabbed the bull by the tail and then let it go--which this fellow does with a flourish.

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"Les Pegas" (Fifth of nine): ...but not for long. The animal is tough and won't give up without a terrific battle.

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"Les Pegas" (Third of nine): The toreadors' colleagues come to the rescue.

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"Les Pegas" (Sixth of nine): Here, the fight is really tough with the ferocious bull stepping on one of the toreadors.

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"Les Pegas" (Fourth of nine): They've got the bulls by the horns...

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"Les Pegas" (Seventh of nine): A toreador uses his cape to attract the attention of the mad bull.

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"Les Pegas" (Fourth of nine): They've got the bulls by the horns...

Gordon W. Gahan

"Les Pegas" (Seventh of nine): A toreador uses his cape to attract the attention of the mad bull.

Gordon W. Gahan

"Les Pegas" (Sixth of nine): Here, the fight is really tough with the ferocious bull stepping on one of the toreadors.

Gordon W. Gahan

"Les Pegas" (Second of nine): The charge of the challenged furious beast sends both the leading toreador and his second into the air.

Gordon W. Gahan

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"Les Pegas" (Second of nine): The charge of the challenged furious beast sends both the leading toreador and his second into the air.

Gordon W. Gahan

"Les Pegas" (Eighth of nine): Success! The bull is finally subdued.

Gordon W. Gahan

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Gordon W. Gahan

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Gordon W. Gahan

Untitled (attempts at shoeing a mule)

American Steel & Wire Co.

Mr. Cheap Marijuana Bullfighter

José Guadalupe Posada Aguilar

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Gordon W. Gahan

Running with the Bulls, Navarre, Pamplona, San Fermines, Spain

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Gordon W. Gahan

Untitled (attempts at shoeing a mule)

American Steel & Wire Co.

Two Cows

Aelbert Cuyp

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Gordon W. Gahan

"Les Pegas" (Eighth of nine): Success! The bull is finally subdued.

Gordon W. Gahan

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Gordon W. Gahan

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Gordon W. Gahan

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Gordon W. Gahan

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Gordon W. Gahan

OHARAME AND OX

Keisai Eisen

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Gordon W. Gahan

Elephant Chase through the Gateway of a Fort

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Gordon W. Gahan

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Gordon W. Gahan

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Gordon W. Gahan

A Spanish Knight Kills the Bull After Having Lost the Horse

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Animals

Paulus Potter

Untitled (matador drawing cape over bull)

Gordon W. Gahan

Farmyard Scene

M & N Hanhart John F. Herring Sr. George Baxter

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American Steel & Wire Co.

Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares and Duke of Sanlucar

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Diego Rodriguez Velázquez

Caparisoned Bull

Unknown Artist

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Gordon W. Gahan

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Gordon W. Gahan

Two Courtesans Greeting a Man with a Horse/ Goyu, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

The Moors Make a Different Play in the Ring, Calling the Bull With Their Burnous

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Animals

Paulus Potter

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Gordon W. Gahan

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Gordon W. Gahan

The Mikado

Kyuichi Uchida Adolfo Farsari

Untitled (matador waving cape over bull)

Gordon W. Gahan

Lion Attacking a Buffalo

Evert Louis van Muyden

Untitled (matador showing cape to bull)

Gordon W. Gahan

Pitching Quoits

Winslow Homer

The tailor

Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Three Tartar Huntsmen Chasing Deer and Rabbits

Kano Dōun

Hooded Hunchback

Jacques Callot

Razullo and Cucurucu

Jacques Callot

Blank page; verso: Study of an Ox

John Singer Sargent

European Man on Horseback

Unknown Artist

Untitled (attempts at shoeing a mule)

American Steel & Wire Co.

Poem by Jōsō, from the series The Ten Great Pupils of the Haikai Poet Bashō (Haisen jūtetsu no uchi)

Utagawa Kunisada

Tibetan Yak with Vignettes of Animals

Abu’l Hasan

The Bull

Paulus Potter