Chimney Sweep
Medium
Etching with some engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 5/16 × 7 5/16 in. (23.6 × 18.6 cm) Image: 8 7/8 × 7 5/16 in. (22.6 × 18.5 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(17)
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Art Historical Context
In the heart of 18th-century French printmaking, *Chimney Sweep* (1737) stands as a captivating collaboration among three luminaries: engraver François Joullain, antiquarian and artist Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus, and sculptor Edme Bouchardon. Produced as an etching with some engraving, this intimate print measures just under 9 by 7 inches, inviting close inspection of its fine lines and textures. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it exemplifies the era's mastery of reproductive techniques, where etching allowed fluid, spontaneous ...