Manly courage of the celebrated Pajuelera in the ring at Saragossa, plate 22 from The Art of Bullfighting
Medium
Etching, drypoint, and burnishing on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate/sheet: 19.9 × 29.7 cm (7 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80076
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...