Philip III
Medium
Etching and drypoint with engraved inscription on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 36.3 × 31 cm (14 5/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Plate: 38.5 × 31 cm (15 3/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Sheet, folded at top and bottom: 55 × 43 cm (21 11/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44590
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...