Painting (La Peinture): a monkey seated at an easel, dressed in a robe and beret and holding a painter's palette, a framed painting hanging on the wall beyond
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 5/16 in. (25.6 x 18.5 cm) plate: 9 13/16 x 6 7/8 in. (25 x 17.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.249
Tags
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Louis Desplaces|Marguerite Caillou Chéreau · 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...