Frieze with Antique Motifs
18th century
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/16 x 17 3/16 in. (12.8 x 43.7 cm) Image: 4 5/16 x 16 5/8 in. (10.9 x 42.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift and Susan Schulman Printseller Gift, in honor of Isabel Wilcox, 2009
Accession Number
2009.187.1
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Guillaume Moitte|Louise Pithoud · 1746–1810
A sculptor and draftsman who worked in the Neoclassical style and, although not that well-known, to be one of France most talented and committed exponents of that style. In 1768 he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture and lived in Rome from October 1771 to May 1773. In 1783 Moitte was accepted by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and received commissions for several statues and low r...