<Capriccio> with Ruins

<Capriccio> with Ruins by Louis Jean Desprez

Medium

etching

Dimensions

240; 341

About this artwork

Aankoop uit het F.G. Waller-Fonds

About the Artist

Louis Jean Desprez · 17431804

Louis Jean Desprez (1743–1804), born in Auxerre to a wig-maker father and widowed mother, began his artistic training as a twelve-year-old apprentice under engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin in Paris in 1755. He later studied at the Académie royale d'architecture, sponsored by architect Pierre Desmaisons, and became a pupil of Charles de Wailly from 1768 to 1776, embracing neoclassicism inspired by I...

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