La Galerie de Girardon
Nicolas Chevalier|René Charpentier
18th century
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 21 3/4 x 25 15/16 in. (55.2 x 65.9 cm) mount: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.95.151
Tags
ArchitectureSculpture
About the Artist
Nicolas Chevalier|René Charpentier · 1828–1902
Born in May 1828 of a Swiss father and a Russian mother. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres (1976) mentions that Chevalier left Saint Petersburg, Russia, for Lausanne, Switzerland, at the age of 17; Thieme-Becker mentions that from 1845 he was living in Lausanne.