Spanish Entertainment, from The Bulls of Bordeaux
Medium
Lithographic crayon and scraper on light tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.1 × 40.6 cm (11 7/8 × 16 in.); Sheet: 36.6 × 47.8 cm (14 7/16 × 18 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22639
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...