Abbot Emeric Brulon (?), pl. XI from "Recueil de caricatures"
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 7 7/8 in. (28.3 × 20 cm) Plate: 10 13/16 × 7 5/8 in. (27.4 × 19.3 cm)
Classification
Prints|Albums
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Carolyn Bullard Gift, in honor of E. John Bullard and funds from various donors, 2014
Accession Number
2014.196.1 (15)
Tags
Art Historical Context
This etching, created around 1754 by Jacques François Joseph Saly in collaboration with Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully, forms plate XI in the album *Recueil de caricatures*. The print captures a witty, exaggerated portrait of Abbot Emeric Brulon, rendered with the fluid lines and tonal contrasts typical of the etching medium. As part of a larger collection of caricatures, it exemplifies the playful yet incisive social observation popular in mid-eighteenth-century France. Caricature flourished during the Enlightenment as artists and collectors used humor to comment on notable figures from co...