Until Death, plate 55 from Los Caprichos
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 19 × 13.2 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.); Plate: 21.5 × 15 cm (8 1/2 × 5 15/16 in.); Sheet: 32 × 21.8 cm (12 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44777
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...