Design for the Decoration of the Altar to be erected during the Holy Week, Dedicated to Monseigneur Christophe de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 18 9/16 × 13 3/8 in. (47.1 × 33.9 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest; Christie's Inc., PECO Foundation, and University of California, Berkeley Gifts; and Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2017
Accession Number
2017.50
About the Artist
Louis Jean Desprez · 1743–1804
Louis Jean Desprez (1743–1804), born in Auxerre to a wig-maker father and widowed mother, began his artistic training as a twelve-year-old apprentice under engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin in Paris in 1755. He later studied at the Académie royale d'architecture, sponsored by architect Pierre Desmaisons, and became a pupil of Charles de Wailly from 1768 to 1776, embracing neoclassicism inspired by I...