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
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...