The Forceful Rendón Stabs a Bull with the Pique, from which Pass He Died in the Ring at Madrid, plate 28 from The Art of Bullfighting
1814/16, published 1816
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint and burin on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.9 × 31.4 cm (8 1/4 × 12 3/8 in.); Plate: 25 × 35.2 cm (9 7/8 × 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
123737
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...