The Very Skilful Student of Falces, Wrapped in his Cape, Tricks the Bull with the Play of his Body, plate 14 from The Art of Bullfighting
1814/16, published 1816
Medium
Etching, aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.1 × 30.5 cm (7 15/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Plate: 24.8 × 35.5 cm (9 13/16 × 14 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 44.6 cm (12 11/16 × 17 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
123722
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...