In this self-portrait Goya has depicted himself at the age of fifty-one. This was the first etching in a series he created called Los caprichos (the caprices or fantasies). Los caprichos are a ...
Goya, born in Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, Spain, was an original and enigmatic artist, equally gifted as a painter and printmaker. His appointment in 1786 as painter to the Spanish King Charles IV followed ...
The aquatint is by Johann Theodor Puttrich, 1793. It served as the basis for an engraving by Daniel Berger for Unzer in Königsberg in 1798. The engraving has 'Puttrich fecit' on a rock which is not ...