Plattegrond van een zaal
Louis Jean Desprez
1753 - 1804
Medium
etching
Dimensions
349; 455
About this artwork
Genummerd rechtsboven: Suppl. Pl. 1.
About the Artist
Louis Jean Desprez · 1743–1804
Louis Jean Desprez (1743–1804), born in Auxerre to a wig-maker father and widowed mother, began his artistic training as a twelve-year-old apprentice under engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin in Paris in 1755. He later studied at the Académie royale d'architecture, sponsored by architect Pierre Desmaisons, and became a pupil of Charles de Wailly from 1768 to 1776, embracing neoclassicism inspired by I...