Bridget in Love
c. 1755
Medium
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.7 × 24.5 cm (11 3/4 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 36.8 × 26.6 cm (14 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
106683
Art Historical Context
**Bridget in Love** is a delicate etching by Dutch printmaker Pieter Tanjé, created around 1755. Tanjé, active in Leiden during the Rococo era, was renowned his intricate reproductive prints and portraits that captured the elegance of 18th-century European life. This work, executed in black ink on ivory laid paper, measures nearly 30 × 25 cm in its image area, making it an intimate piece ideal for private collections or scholarly study. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department, it exemplifies the technical precision of etching—a process where acid bites into a me...