May God Repay You
Medium
Etching, aquatint and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.8 × 18.3 cm (5 7/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Plate: 17.2 × 23 cm (6 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 17.7 × 23.8 cm (7 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27162
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...