Midday. A Lady Setting Her Watch
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 12 1/4 x 8 9/16 in. (31.1 x 21.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.1043
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the delicate etching and engraving *Midday. A Lady Her Watch*, created by engraver Gilles Edme Petit a design by François Boucher, glimpse an elegant 18th-century pausing midday to adjust her pocket watch. Rendered on a sheet measuring 12¼ x 8⅜ inches, this print captures a moment of poised femininity, with the lady shaded by a parasol amid lush surroundings. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Drawings and Prints department, it entered the collection via the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund in 1953. François Boucher, a leading figure of the French Rococo movement, was renowned for his playf...
About the Artist
Gilles Edme Petit|François Boucher (French|French) · 1694 |1703 –1760 |1770
French, Paris 1694–1760 Paris|French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris