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Actress Charlotte Desmares playing the role of a pilgrim, shown from behind with her head turned toward the right, she holds a walking stick, scallop shells adorn her cape

Actress Charlotte Desmares playing the role of a pilgrim, shown from behind with her head turned toward the right, she holds a walking stick, scallop shells adorn her cape by Antoine Watteau|Louis Desplaces

Medium

Etching with engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 5 1/2 x 3 1/16 in. (13.9 x 7.7 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Accession Number

2012.136.247

Tags

WomenActresses

About the Artist

Antoine Watteau|Louis Desplaces · 16841721

Jean-Antoine Watteau, born in 1684 in Valenciennes to a modest family—his father a roofer named Jean-Philippe Watteau—was the second of four sons who displayed an early passion for art. After initial apprenticeship under local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin, he moved to Paris around 1702, working in workshops copying Flemish and Dutch genre scenes. By 1705, he entered the studio of Claude Gillot, ab...

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