Friar Pedro Clubs El Maragato with the Butt of the Gun
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
29.2 × 38.5 cm (11 1/2 × 15 5/8 in.); Framed: 42 × 51.5 × 6.4 cm (16 1/2 × 20 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
16359
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...