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Medium
Etching and engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.7 × 21.9 cm (10 9/16 × 8 5/8 in.); Sheet: 40.1 × 31.5 cm (15 13/16 × 12 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
15060
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Louis Michel Halbou · 1741–1814
Louis Michel Halbou was born in Paris in 1730 and became one of the accomplished French draughtsmen and engravers of the later eighteenth century. He studied under Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis, the distinguished engraver to the king and member of the Académie, remaining in a lengthy apprenticeship that allowed his technique to mature by around 1760. Specializing in the burin, Halbou finished many etchin...