The Moors use donkeys as a barrier to defend themselves against the bull whose horns have been tipped with balls, plate 17 from The Art of Bullfighting
1814/16, published 1816
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.9 × 31.1 cm (7 7/8 × 12 1/4 in.); Plate: 24.5 × 35.2 cm (9 11/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 31.8 × 44.7 cm (12 9/16 × 17 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
123725
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...