Literary Illustration with Gentleman and Two Ladies in Interior
Medium
Pen and brown ink and graphite, over red chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
13.9 × 7.7 cm (5 1/2 × 3 1/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52851
About the Artist
Hubert François Gravelot
Hubert-François Bourguignon, known as Gravelot (1699–1773), was a leading French Rococo engraver, illustrator, and designer whose elegant draftsmanship bridged the artistic worlds of France and England. Born in Paris to a tailor, he adopted his pseudonym from a godfather and grew up alongside his elder brother, the geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. After neglecting studies at the Col...