Musée du Louvre; collection des dessins, Le Remouler, par Watteau; from Magasin Pittoresque
ca. 1852
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 6 9/16 × 6 9/16 in. (16.7 × 16.7 cm) Image: 5 7/8 × 4 3/4 in. (15 × 12 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
32.36.63
Tags
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Charles Jacque · 1684–1721
Jean-Antoine Watteau, born in 1684 in Valenciennes to a modest family—his father a roofer named Jean-Philippe Watteau—was the second of four sons who displayed an early passion for art. After initial apprenticeship under local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin, he moved to Paris around 1702, working in workshops copying Flemish and Dutch genre scenes. By 1705, he entered the studio of Claude Gillot, ab...