Figures de Differents caracteres, de Paysages . . .Volume I
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Overall: 20 1/4 x 14 3/16 x 2 3/16 in. (51.5 x 36 x 5.5 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Accession Number
28.100.1
Tags
ChildrenPortraits
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|François I Chéreau|Girard Audran · 1684–1721
Jean-Antoine Watteau, born in 1684 in Valenciennes to a modest family—his father a roofer named Jean-Philippe Watteau—was the second of four sons who displayed an early passion for art. After initial apprenticeship under local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin, he moved to Paris around 1702, working in workshops copying Flemish and Dutch genre scenes. By 1705, he entered the studio of Claude Gillot, ab...