Les amours champêtres
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 11/16 × 9 3/8 in. (32.2 × 23.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.608.32
Art Historical Context
**Les Amours Champêtres (Rustic Loves)**, created in 1767, is a delicate engraving by the French artists Pierre Philippe Choffard Pierre Antoine Baudouin.offard, a master engraver renowned for his intricate line work, likely translated Baudouin's design—a painter celebrated for his Rococo elegance—into this intimate print. Measuring 12 11/16 × 9 3/8 inches, it exemplifies the refined reproductive printmaking of 18th-century France, where engravings allowed wider access to elite artistic visions. This work captures the era's fascination with pastoral romance, evoking idyllic countryside scenes...