Le Général la fayette soutenu sur les batons des marechaux Lukner et Rochambeau prend la Lune avec les dents
Anonymous, French, 18th century
January 22, 1792
Medium
Aquatint and etching
Dimensions
sheet: 8 3/4 x 5 7/8 in. (22.3 x 15 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.520.21
Tags
SatireFrench RevolutionPoliticsMenGenerals
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1700–1800
The artist known as Anonymous, French, 18th century, represents a collective of unidentified talents active roughly between 1700 and 1800, a period of profound artistic evolution in France from the opulent Rococo to the austere dawn of Neoclassicism and Revolutionary fervor. Little is documented about their personal training or mentors, as their anonymity obscures individual biographies, though th...