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
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...