The Big Rock
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
before 1810
Medium
Etching and burnished aquatint on laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 17.1 × 28.2 cm (6 3/4 × 11 1/8 in.); Sheet: 32.1 × 44.6 cm (12 11/16 × 17 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
56748
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...