Man Proposing to a Woman whose Face is Hidden by Hair
ca. 1830–65
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 7/16 in. (32.9 × 24 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.21.56
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the intimate lithograph *Man Proposing to a whose Face is Hidden by*, created around 1830–65 by French artist Célestin Nanteuil and printed by Bertauts, P. Cadet in, we witness a tender moment of courtship. Nanteuil, a skilled engraver and lithographer for his delicate genre scenes, captures a man on one knee, extending a ring to a woman whose cascading hair veils her face, ev shyness, anticipation, or playful mystery. This sheet, measuring 12 15/16 × 9 7/16 inches, is part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Elisha Whittelsey Collection. Lithography, a revolutionary 19th-century technique...