Paysage
18th century
Medium
Stipple engraving printed in red ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 17 3/8 in. (31.5 × 44.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965
Accession Number
65.646.5
Art Historical Context
This delicate stipple engraving titled *Paysage* captures the refined taste for pastoral landscapes that flourished in eighteenth-century France. Created through a collaboration between painter and draftsman Jean-Baptiste Huet I and master printmaker Gilles Demarteau, the work exemplifies the period’s fascination with idyllic rural scenes rendered in an intimate, sketch-like manner. Huet, celebrated for his charming depictions of nature and animals in the Rococo spirit, supplied the design, while Demarteau translated it into print. Demarteau’s innovative stipple technique—employing countless ...