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La Galerie de Girardon
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La Galerie de Girardon

Medium

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 21 5/8 x 45 11/16 in. (54.9 x 116.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About René Charpentier

1680–1723France

Charpentier won the Prix de Rome, however, he did not study at the French Academy in Rome. He spent time in Berlin working with the architect Jean de Bodt. When he returned to Paris he worked with Girardon and did a series of etchings at his gallery in the Louvre called 'Galerie de Girardon.'