Portrait of a Young Woman
August 13, 1798
Medium
Stipple engraving on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 27 × 18.7 cm (10 11/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Plate: 31.2 × 22.8 cm (12 5/16 × 9 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 30.7 cm (17 1/2 × 12 1/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
133340
Art Historical Context
Step into the refined world of late 18th-century printmaking with Francesco Bartolozzi's *Portrait of a Young Woman* (1798). This delicate stipple engraving on cream wove paper captures the elegance of its sitter through subtle tonal gradations, measuring a modest image size of 27 × 18.7 cm. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department, it exemplifies Bartolozzi's mastery as one of Europe's leading engravers, who bridged Italian and British artistic traditions during his prolific career. Bartolozzi pioneered stipple engraving—a technique using fine dots rather than ...
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi · 1727–1815
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727–1815) was an Italian engraver whose most productive period was spent in London, where he became the leading exponent of stipple engraving and a founding member of the Royal Academy. Born in Florence and trained first as a painter before turning to engraving in Venice, he established his reputation in Rome before being recruited by the English Royal Librarian Richard Dalt...