Design for a Book Illustration [?]

Design for a Book Illustration [?] by Hubert François Gravelot

Medium

Pen and gray ink with graphite

Dimensions

2 1/16 x 1 5/8 in. (5.2 x 4.2 cm.)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Fletcher Fund, 1944

Accession Number

44.54.34

Tags

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About the Artist

Hubert François Gravelot

Hubert-François Bourguignon, known as Gravelot (1699–1773), was a leading French Rococo engraver, illustrator, and designer whose elegant draftsmanship bridged the artistic worlds of France and England. Born in Paris to a tailor, he adopted his pseudonym from a godfather and grew up alongside his elder brother, the geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. After neglecting studies at the Col...

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