The Custody is as Barbarous as the Crime ("The Little Prisoner")
Medium
Etching and burin on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 9.9 × 7.4 cm (3 15/16 × 2 15/16 in.); Plate: 11 × 8.5 cm (4 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.); Sheet: 25.3 × 18.4 cm (10 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52670
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...