A Woman from Savoy
Medium
Etching with some engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 3/16 x 6 5/8 in. (23.4 x 16.9 cm) Image: 8 9/16 x 6 5/8 in. (21.8 x 16.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.588(43)
Tags
Art Historical Context
**A Woman from Savoy** (1742) is a delicate etching with some engraving by Anne Claude Philippe Tubières, comte delus, after a design by the renowned sculptor Edme Bouch. Measuring just over 9 by 6 inches, this print captures the poised likeness of a woman from the Savoy region in the western Alps, now spanning parts of France, Italy, Switzerland. Created during the elegant Rococo era in France, it reflects the period's fascination with picturesque regional types and everyday elegance, blending portraiture with ethnographic curiosity. Caylus, an aristocratic antiquarian and skilled engraver, ...