La ratisseuse
Medium
engraving
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Widener Collection
Accession Number
1942.9.2159
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Bernard Lépicié after Jean Siméon Chardin
**Bernard Lépicié (François-Bernard Lépicié, 1698/1699–1755)** was a French engraver best known for his reproductive prints after the paintings of Jean Siméon Chardin. Working in Paris during the height of the Rococo period, Lépicié specialized in translating Chardin’s intimate genre scenes—depictions of everyday domestic life—into finely detailed engravings that reached a broad audience across Eu...