Menippus
Medium
Etching with engraved inscription on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 28.5 × 19 cm (11 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.); Plate: 30.5 × 22 cm (12 1/16 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 42.5 × 30.2 cm (16 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
38167
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...