Bound print
1771â1802
Classification
Bound print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Accession Number
1921-6-551-42
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
Jean-Charles Krafft, French artist active from the late 18th to 19th century (4–1833), this intriguing *Bound Print* sometime between 1771 and 1802. Born in Paris during the Enlightenment era, Krafft worked amid the turbulent years of the French Revolution and Napoleon's rise, a time when printmaking flourished as a democratic medium for sharing images widely. This piece, classified as a bound print, likely represents a compiled volume of engraved or etched works, a popular format for preserving and displaying series of images in an accessible, book-like form. Though the specific medium remai...