A Woman and a Horse, Let Someone Else Master Them, plate ten from Los Proverbios
Medium
Etching with aquatint and drypoint in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.2 × 31.5 cm (8 3/8 × 12 7/16 in.); Plate: 24.4 × 35 cm (9 5/8 × 13 13/16 in.); Sheet: 33.2 × 49.5 cm (13 1/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44901
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...