Design for a Gold Watchcase Showing Front and Elevation
Medium
Pen and gray ink over graphite underdrawing. Incised. Rubbed and smudged with brown ink.
Dimensions
3 7/8 x 2 1/8 in. (9.8 x 5.4 cm) frame: 21 x 16 in. (53.3 x 40.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1944
Accession Number
44.66.1
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...