A Spanish knight kills the bull after having lost his horse, plate nine from The Art of Bullfighting
1814/16, published 1816
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint and burin on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.4 × 31.3 cm (8 1/16 × 12 3/8 in.); Plate: 24.7 × 35.3 cm (9 3/4 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 33 × 44.7 cm (13 × 17 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
123717
About the Artist
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746, in the small Aragonese village of Fuendetodos, Spain, to José Benito de Goya, a master gilder, and Gracia de Lucientes. The fourth of six children in a modest lower-middle-class family, Goya received a basic education before beginning his artistic training at age 14 under the local painter José Luzán y Martínez in Zaragoza, where he sp...