The Same Man Throws a Bull in the Ring at Madrid, plate 16 from The Art of Bullfighting
1814/16, published 1876
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.5 × 31 cm (8 1/8 × 12 1/4 in.); Plate: 24.5 × 35.3 cm (9 11/16 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 33.5 × 49.5 cm (13 1/4 × 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
55190
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...