The Unlucky Death of Pepe Illo in the Ring at Madrid, plate 33 from The Art of Bullfighting
1814/16, published 1816
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.2 × 30.8 cm (8 × 12 3/16 in.); Plate: 24.7 × 35.5 cm (9 3/4 × 14 in.); Sheet: 31.6 × 44.7 cm (12 1/2 × 17 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
123743
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...