The Famous American, Mariano Ceballos, from The Bulls of Bordeaux
Medium
Lithographic crayon and scraper on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.1 × 40.5 cm (12 1/4 × 16 in.); Sheet: 41.8 × 50.9 cm (16 1/2 × 20 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22632
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...