Jonge man met baret en stok
Michel Barthélémy Ollivier
1722 - 1784
Medium
etching
Dimensions
150; 190
About this artwork
height 190 mm x width 150 mm
Art Historical Context
Behold *Jonge man met baret en* (*Young Man with Beret and Stick*), a delicate etching by the French artist Michel Barthélémy Ollivier (1722–1784). This intimate portrait captures a youthful figure adorned with a beret and a stick, rendered in precise lines on a modest plate measuring 190 mm high by 150 mm wide. Ollivier, a skilled painter and engraver of the Rococo era, in such small-scale works, blending elegance with everyday charm to evoke the refined sensibilities of 18th-century France. Etching, Ollivier's chosen medium here, was a revolutionary intaglio technique popular among Enlighte...