Design for a Piece of Jewelry (Bracelet?)
Hubert François Gravelot
ca. 1730–1750
Medium
Pen and black ink over black chalk underdrawing
Dimensions
6 x 2 3/8 in. (15.2 x 6 cm.)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1944
Accession Number
44.66.2
Tags
FlowersLeaves
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...