He was young and needed the money
José (Jusepe) de Ribera (1591–1652) is regarded as the foremost Spanish printmaker active before Goya and one of the greatest of all seventeenth-century virtuosos of etching. His reputation is all the more remarkable since there are only eighteen etchings known to have been made by his hand. Read more.
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Why are fathers so absent from art history?