Two teams of picadors thrown one after the other by a single bull, plate 32 from The Art of Bullfighting
1814/16, published 1816
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.1 × 31 cm (7 15/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Plate: 24.4 × 35.2 cm (9 5/8 × 13 7/8 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
123746
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...