They Spruce Themselves Up, plate 51 from Los Caprichos
Medium
Etching and aquatint in sepia on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.1 × 12.7 cm (7 3/16 × 5 in.); Plate: 21 × 14.8 cm (8 5/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 30.1 × 20.7 cm (11 7/8 × 8 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
123812
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...