Literary Illustration with Two Ladies and Two Gentlemen in a Street
Medium
Pen and brown ink over graphite and red chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
13.3 × 7.8 cm (5 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52854
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...