Chevalier d'Eon
Medium
Stipple engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 6 7/8 × 4 7/16 in. (17.5 × 11.2 cm) Sheet: 10 1/8 × 7 9/16 in. (25.7 × 19.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
Accession Number
24.80.21
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intrigue of 18th-century Europe with *Chevalier d'Eon*, a captivating stipple engraving from 1787 now housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department. This portrait depicts Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont, the enigmatic French diplomat, soldier, and spy famously known as the Chevalier don. Living a life of gender fluidity, d'Éon served as a dragoon captain and secret agent before adopting women's attire publicly in the 1770s, sparking endless fascination and debate across courts from Versailles to London. Crafted through...
About the Artist
Benjamin Beale Evans|Richard Cosway|Charles Geneviève Louise Auguste André Timothée d'Eon de Beaumont|Thomas Chambars (British|British|Italian|American) · 1765 |1564 |1728 |1738 –1824 |1616 |1815 |1820
British, ca. 1765–1824|British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon|Italian, Florence 1728–1815 Lisbon|American, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738–1820 London