Joseph Carreras
Medium
Mezzotint
Dimensions
sheet: 11 9/16 x 9 13/16 in. (29.4 x 25 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925
Accession Number
25.62.28v
Tags
Art Historical Context
This elegant mezzotint portrait, *Joseph Carreras* (1735), captures the likeness of its namesake subject through the masterful collaboration of two 18th-century British artists: Sir Godfrey Kneller the original painter and renowned court portraitist to monarchs like Charles II and Queen Anne, and John Faber the Younger, a leading engraver who translated Kneller's oil painting into print. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, this 11 9/16 x 9 13/16-inch sheet exemplifies the era's booming market for affordable reproductions of elite portraits, allowing admir...
About the Artist
John Faber, the Younger|Sir Godfrey Kneller|Joseph Carreras|John Faber, the Younger (British|German|Spanish|British) · 1695 |1646 |1686 |1695 –1756 |1723 |1686 |1756
British, ca. 1695–1756|German, Lübeck 1646–1723 London|Spanish, active 1686|British, ca. 1695–1756