The Way in which the ancient Spaniards Hunted Bulls on Horseback in the Open Country, plate one from The Art of Bullfighting
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 21 × 31 cm (8 5/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Plate: 25 × 35.3 cm (9 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 32 × 44.5 cm (12 5/8 × 17 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44910
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...