Picador Caught by a Bull, from The Bulls of Bordeaux
Medium
Lithographic crayon and scraper in black on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.3 × 41.3 cm (12 3/8 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 38.5 × 50.8 cm (15 3/16 × 20 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22635
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...