The Famous American, Mariano Ceballos, from The Bulls of Bordeaux
Medium
Lithographic crayon and scraper on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.1 × 40.5 cm (12 1/4 × 16 in.); Sheet: 41.8 × 50.9 cm (16 1/2 × 20 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22632
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Francisco Goya’s four lithographs that make up his series The Bulls of Bordeaux capture the spectacle of bullfighting in southern France, where Goya lived in self-imposed exile for the last four years of his life. Deaf and physically weak, Goya used the excuse of his ill health to leave Spain, fearing retaliation for his liberal political views. He chose the new medium of lithography for the series, a printmaking method which replicates the freely drawn line and thus allows the artist to capture...
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...