Baltasar Carlos
Medium
Etching and drypoint with engraved inscription on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 32.6 × 22.3 cm (12 7/8 × 8 13/16 in.); Plate: 35 × 22.3 cm (13 13/16 × 8 13/16 in.); Sheet, folded at bottom: 55.3 × 43.1 cm (21 13/16 × 17 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44599
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Like Velázquez in the 17th century, Goya was an artist to the Spanish Royal Court. He worked in a variety of media, from tapestry design and painting to printing. While his posthumous fame derived from the satirical series Caprichos and the Disasters of War, he also produced other types of prints. Some of his earliest were reproductive etchings after Velázquez’s much-prized portraits and history paintings. Goya would have seen the originals hanging in the Royal Palace in Madrid (now in the Museo...
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...