If Two to One, Stuff Your Arse with Straw, from Los Proverbios
1815/24, published 1877
Medium
Etching and burnished aquatint on Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.7 × 32.8 cm (8 9/16 × 12 15/16 in.); Plate: 24.7 × 35.8 cm (9 3/4 × 14 1/8 in.); Sheet: 28.4 × 39 cm (11 3/16 × 15 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
111834
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...