Le Citoyen Aubourg, Mme Aubourg, et leur famille (Citizen Aubourg, Madame Aubourg, and their Family)
baron Dominique Vivant Denon
ca. 1795–1805
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 8 1/4 in. (27.8 × 21 cm) Plate: 8 7/8 × 6 9/16 in. (22.6 × 16.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Ellen Peckham Gift, 2015
Accession Number
2015.384
Tags
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About the Artist
baron Dominique Vivant Denon · 1747–1825
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747–1825), was a multifaceted French artist, diplomat, and archaeologist whose life bridged the Ancien Régime, Revolution, and Napoleonic Empire. Born on January 4, 1747, in Givry near Chalon-sur-Saône to a family of minor nobility originally surnamed "de Non," he was sent to Paris at eighteen to study law. Instead, he pursued art, studying painting under Noël Hallé...