The Drunkards
Medium
Etching with engraved inscription on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 28.7 × 39.5 cm (11 5/16 × 15 9/16 in.); Plate: 31.8 × 43.7 cm (12 9/16 × 17 1/4 in.); Sheet: 32.5 × 44.1 cm (12 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44608
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Until Goya produced 19 etchings after 17th-century Velázquez paintings in 1778, the original compositions were little known. Goya’s copies reproduced all the prints in the same direction as the originals. He advertised the availability of this print and the Baltasar Carlos in the Gazeta de Madrid on Tuesday, December 22, 1788: “Two new prints one of which represents the Prince Don Baltasar Carlos on horseback, and the other a false Bacchus crowning some drunkards; paintings by Don Diego Velázque...
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...