A Peach Girl: a woman carrying peaches in her apron and holding up one
Medium
Mezzotint
Dimensions
Plate: 13 15/16 × 9 7/8 in. (35.4 × 25.1 cm) Sheet: 16 5/16 in. × 11 in. (41.4 × 28 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
Accession Number
42.119.113
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *A Peach Girl*, a charming 1786 mezzotint print depicting a woman gracefully carrying peaches in her apron holding one aloft, as if offering it to the viewer. Attributed to publishers and engravers Robert Sayer and James Wilson after the Venetian Rococo artist Rosalbariera, this work captures the playful elegance of 18th-century genre scenes. Carriera, renowned for her delicate pastels of youthful figures, inspired countless reproductions like this one, making her art accessible to a wider audience through printmaking. Mezzotint, the chosen medium, revolutionized printmaking with its v...