To Go Amongst the Branches, i.e. to talk through one's hat, plate three from Los Proverbios
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.2 × 32.3 cm (8 3/8 × 12 3/4 in.); Plate: 24.4 × 35.2 cm (9 5/8 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 33.1 × 49.7 cm (13 1/16 × 19 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44896
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...