She Who is Ill Wed Never Misses a Chance to Say So, plate seven from Los Proverbios
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on ivory laid paper with inscriptions in brown ink
Dimensions
Image: 21.8 × 32.6 cm (8 5/8 × 12 7/8 in.); Plate: 24.7 × 35.7 cm (9 3/4 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.7 × 44 cm (12 7/8 × 17 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63455
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...