Manhood
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
image: 9 7/16 x 6 3/16 in. (23.9 x 15.7 cm), trimmed to image
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.600.30
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Manhood" is a etching attributed to Claude Gillot and François Joullain, two prominent French artists of the early 18th century.ot, a painter and engraver known for his lively scenes and influence on the Rococo style—mentoring Antoine Watteau—likely provided the design, while Jouain, a skilled printmaker, executed the. Created around this transitional period from Baroque to Rococo, the undated work captures the era's fascination with the human form, blending classical influences with emerging decorative elegance. The image, trimmed to its precise dimensions of 9 7/16 x 6 3/16 inches, feature...
About the Artist
Claude Gillot|François Joullain · 1673–1722
Artist known for his elegant designs done in the Rococo manner of Audran; also for his predilection for scenes from the 'comedia dell'arte.' Few paintings survive; his work is known mainly through drawings and etchings. Comment on works: Genre; History