Designs for Brackets with Silverwork
late 17th century
Medium
Etching and Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (19 x 26 cm) sheet: 10 5/16 x 14 3/4 in. (26.2 x 37.5 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.11
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Berain · 1640–1711
**Jean Bérain the Elder (1640–1711)** was a French draughtsman, designer, painter, and engraver of ornament who served as the central artistic force in the Royal office of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. Born in Saint-Mihiel in the Spanish Netherlands (now France) to a master gunsmith, he spent his career in Paris and became one of the defining figures of late 17th-century French decorative arts. Béra...