Portrait of Antoine de Parcieux
Medium
Etching and engraving; third state of three (Bocher)
Dimensions
Mount: 9 3/8 × 9 15/16 in. (23.8 × 25.3 cm) Sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 1/16 in. (19 × 12.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.3467
Tags
Art Historical Context
This refined *Portrait of Antoine de Parux* (1771), an etching and engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin Charles Nicolas Cochin II exemplifies the technical mastery of 18th-century printmaking. Produced as the third and final state of three— to the Bocher catalogue—this intimate sheet (7 1/2 × 5 1/16 in.) captures a dignified male sitter in the elegant style of the Enlightenment era. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints, it entered the collection via the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund in 1953. Cochin II, a leading engraver and designer linked to the Académie Royale, often col...
About the Artist
Augustin de Saint-Aubin|Charles Nicolas Cochin II · 1736–1807
Comment on works: Illustrator; Engraver