Bust of a man in night cap and gown
baron Dominique Vivant Denon
18th–early 19th century
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 4 13/16 × 3 9/16 in. (12.2 × 9 cm) Sheet: 8 1/8 × 5 11/16 in. (20.7 × 14.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.69.5
Tags
Men
About the Artist
baron Dominique Vivant Denon · 1747–1825
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747–1825), was a multifaceted French artist, diplomat, and archaeologist whose life bridged the Ancien Régime, Revolution, and Napoleonic Empire. Born on January 4, 1747, in Givry near Chalon-sur-Saône to a family of minor nobility originally surnamed "de Non," he was sent to Paris at eighteen to study law. Instead, he pursued art, studying painting under Noël Hallé...