Aquatint
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Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching that produces areas of tone rather than lines. For this reason it has mostly been used in conjunction with etching, to give both lin
1835 aquatint showing the first production of I puritani. Note range of tones.
Demonstration sections of printed aquatint, magnified.
Goya, No. 32 of Los Caprichos (1799, Por que fue sensible). This is a fairly rare example of a Goya print entirely in aquatint.
Philibert-Louis Debucourt, The Public Promenade, 1792. Printed in colour from various plates, using etching, engraving, and aquatint. One of the leading achievements of the French 18th-century colour-print.
La Tauromaquia
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La Tauromaquia is a series of 33 prints created by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya, which was published in 1816. The works of the series depict bullfighting scenes. There are also se
Νο.18: The Daring of Martincho in the Ring at Zaragoza, etching and aquatint 24,5 × 35,5 cm. In this work from La Tauromaquia a famous bullfighter is depicted sitting on a chair and with feet shackled together while facing the attacking bull. Here, Goya ignores – partly – the laws of perspective, depicting the viewers in a rather unusual way in order to give more dynamism to the work.
Self-portrait, 1790–1795, oil on canvas, 42 × 28 cm. In this painting Goya depicts himself in a bullfighter's suit
Spanish entertainment, 1825, lithograph, 30 × 41 εκ., Madrid, National Library. In this work from The Bulls of Bordeaux series, Goya presents bullfighting as a way of popular entertainment, and not as a violent event, as he does in Tauromaquia.
Goya - La desgraciada muerte de Pepe Illo en la plaza de Madrid