Le Roy et la Reine des Nabots arrivés nouvellement à Londre. Grands amateurs de la coeffure nouvelle
18th century
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 13 9/16 x 9 7/8 in. (34.5 x 25.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.734.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical world of 18th French satire with *Le Roy et la Reine desots arrivés nouvellement àre. Grands amateurs la coeffure nouvelle*, anonymous etching that captures the era's delight in caricature. This playful print depicts self-proclaimed "King and of the Dwarfs," newly arrived in London and utterly enamored with latest extravagant hairstyles—or "coeffure nouvelle." The exaggerated figures, adorned in oversized wigs and regal attire, poke fun at the opulent fashions of European courts, where elaborate hairdos symbolized status amid the excesses of the Rococo period. Created ...
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...