Le Sultan
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 13 3/16 × 9 5/8 in. (33.5 × 24.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.602.49
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Men
About the Artist
Louis Michel Halbou|J. F. G. Colson|François II Chéreau · 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...