Bullfight in a divided ring, from The Bulls of Bordeaux
Medium
Lithographic crayon and scraper on light tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.4 × 41.3 cm (12 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 39.6 × 50.6 cm (15 5/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22642
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...