Bust Portrait of Man in a Plumed Hat

baron Dominique Vivant Denon

18th–early 19th century

Bust Portrait of Man in a Plumed Hat by baron Dominique Vivant Denon

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 4 5/16 × 6 1/16 in. (10.9 × 15.4 cm) Mount: 11 in. × 7 1/2 in. (28 × 19 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917

Accession Number

17.3.1496

Tags

PortraitsMen

About the Artist

baron Dominique Vivant Denon · 17471825

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...

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