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La Rencontre Dangereuse

Pierre Antoine Baudouin | Jean Jacques Leveau

18th century

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Image: 14 15/16 × 10 1/4 in. (38 × 26 cm) Plate: 15 7/8 × 10 7/16 in. (40.4 × 26.5 cm) Sheet: 16 13/16 × 13 1/4 in. (42.7 × 33.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, Transferred from the Library, 1923

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Pierre Antoine Baudouin

1723–1769 • France

Comment on works: Genre; History; Allegory

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