Mariano Ceballos riding a bull from the 'Bulls of Bordeaux'
Medium
Crayon lithograph and scraper
Dimensions
Image: 12 3/16 × 15 13/16 in. (31 × 40.2 cm) Sheet: 18 5/16 × 21 7/8 in. (46.5 × 55.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Louis H. Porter, 1946
Accession Number
46.103
Tags
About the Artist
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)|Cyprien Charles Marie Nicolas Gaulon · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker considered the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Rising from modest provincial origins to become First Court Painter to Charles IV, Goya's career spanned the Enlightenment's optimism and the brutal Napoleonic invasion that shattered it. A mysterious illness in 1793 left him permanently deaf and ...