Nude woman leaving a man in bed
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 8 9/16 × 5 11/16 in. (21.8 × 14.5 cm) Sheet: 11 3/16 × 7 15/16 in. (28.4 × 20.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.500.581(2)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Created in 1823 by Jean Bosq after a design by Alexandre Joseph Desenne, this etching and engraving captures an intimate domestic scene. The title and related tags point to a narrative moment in which a nude woman rises from a bed shared with a clothed male figure. Such subjects were popular in early nineteenth-century French print culture, where they circulated widely through illustrated books and albums. The combination of etching and engraving allowed the artists to achieve both fluid lines and precise tonal modeling, lending the small plate a delicate yet lively quality. At roughly 21.8 b...
About the Artist
Jean Bosq|Alexandre Joseph Desenne (French|French) · 1801 |1785 –1844 |1827
French, active 1801–44|French, Paris 1785–1827 Paris