Portrait of a Man Reading
baron Dominique Vivant Denon
18th–early 19th century
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 7 5/8 x 8 11/16 in. (19.3 x 22 cm) plate: 7 3/8 x 8 1/16 in. (18.8 x 20.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.69.7
Tags
MenPortraitsReading
About the Artist
baron Dominique Vivant Denon · 1747–1825
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747–1825), was a multifaceted French artist, diplomat, and archaeologist whose life bridged the Ancien Régime, Revolution, and Napoleonic Empire. Born on January 4, 1747, in Givry near Chalon-sur-Saône to a family of minor nobility originally surnamed "de Non," he was sent to Paris at eighteen to study law. Instead, he pursued art, studying painting under Noël Hallé...