Note the direct relationship of this watercolor with the one exhibited in the Carmen Thyssen museum in Malaga (catalogued in 1881), which coincides in the title, although it is more than obvious that this is preparation for the other one of larger size and environmental resolution, where, who Resting on the ring of the arena are the entire gang commenting with the teacher on the vicissitudes of the bullfight. Here the sword is alone without his assistants in the fight, waiting, with his hat on and expression contained, for the departure of the next morlaco in that moment, of just very long minutes, where courage tries to overcome fear, and everything remains to come. Cobalt and black with a gold vest in the work suit, albero and quilted background as an impressionist anteroom to point on the stage to an inconcrete audience and sky that await the artistic confrontation to the death between the man and the bull.
