Portrait of François Dumont
Medium
Etching and engraving; third state of three (Bocher)
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 4 7/16 in. (14 × 11.3 cm) Plate: 6 5/8 × 4 3/4 in. (16.9 × 12 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.2025
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate etching and engraving, *Portrait of François Dumont* (1788), showcases a masterful collaboration between designer Charles Nicolas Cochin II engraver Augustin de Saint-A—two luminaries of late 18th-century Frenchmaking. Cochin, a key figure bridging Rococo elegance and Neoclassicism, likely provided the refined drawing, while Saint-A executed the intricate lines. The subject, François Dumont, was a prominent portrait painter, the intellectual vibrancy of pre-Revolutionary Paris. Printed in the third and final state (as catalogued by Bocher), this small-scale work (plate: 6 5/8 × ...
About the Artist
Augustin de Saint-Aubin|Charles Nicolas Cochin II · 1736–1807
Comment on works: Illustrator; Engraver