Portrait of Madame Roland
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Plate: 3 × 2 9/16 in. (7.6 × 6.5 cm) Sheet: 4 1/4 × 3 3/8 in. (10.8 × 8.6 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 1924
Accession Number
24.80.29
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Fouquet|Gilles Louis Chrétien · 1425–1478
Jean Fouquet (c. 1420–c. 1481), born in Tours, stands as a pivotal figure in French art, excelling as both a panel painter and a miniaturist. Little is known of his early years, but he is regarded as having trained in the Parisian workshops associated with the Bedford Master before journeying to Italy around 1445–1447. There, as the first French artist to encounter the Italian Renaissance firsthan...