Bundled Firewood Seller
Medium
Etching with some engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 7/16 x 7 5/16 in. (24 x 18.5 cm) Image: 9 3/16 x 7 3/16 in. (23.3 x 18.3 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(52)
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the bustling streets of 1746 Paris, *Bundled Firewood Seller* captures the everyday grit and grace of urban life through a collaborative print by three luminaries of French art: sculptor and draftsman Edme Bouch, antiquarian engraver Anne-Claude-Philippe Tubières, comte de Caylus, and engraver François Joull. Bouchardon, renowned for his neoclassical precision and studies of ordinary folk, likely provided the original design, whilelus and Joullain it into an etching augmented with engraving. This medium allowed for delicate, fluid lines in the etching—ideal for capturing textures like bundl...
About the Artist
Edme Bouchardon|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus|François Joullain · 1698–1762
Born 29 May 1698; died 27 July 1762. Bouchardon was a student of Guillaume Coustou, and won the prix de Rome in 1722. He spent ten years (1722-1732) in Rome, Italy working on various projects for Pope Clement XII. In 1732 Bouchardon was recalled to Paris and named sculptor to the king. Bouchardon became a professor at the Académie Royale in 1746. He worked on an equestrian monument of Louis XV, Ki...