Elevation and Top View of a Design for a Lidded Box
ca. 1720–1740
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and yellow wash, and red chalk over graphite
Dimensions
3 7/8 x 3 1/16 in. (9.8 x 7.8 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
44.66.3
Tags
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...