Banderillas with firecrackers, plate 31 from The Art of Bullfighting
1814/16, published 1816
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 21 × 32 cm (8 5/16 × 12 5/8 in.); Plate: 24.5 × 35.3 cm (9 11/16 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 31.8 × 44.5 cm (12 9/16 × 17 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
123741
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...