Design: Academic Figure, from Encyclopédie
A. J. Defehrt
1762/77
Medium
Etching, with engraving, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 32 × 20.8 cm (12 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.); Plate: 35.7 × 23 cm (14 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 39.3 × 25.3 cm (15 1/2 × 10 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
148246
About the Artist
A. J. Defehrt · 1708–1779
A. J. Defehrt (1723–1779) was a French draftsman, painter, and engraver whose career is best defined by his substantial contributions to one of the most ambitious publishing projects of the European Enlightenment: the illustrated plates of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. This monumental project, which aimed t...