Design for a Scene in de Laujon's "L'Amoureux de quinze ans, ou la Double-Fête..."

Design for a Scene in de Laujon's "L'Amoureux de quinze ans, ou la Double-Fête..." by Hubert François Gravelot

Medium

Pen and black ink over graphite underdrawing

Dimensions

5 1/4 x 3 5/16 in. (13.4 x 8.4 cm.)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Fletcher Fund, 1944

Accession Number

44.54.28

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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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