Portrait of René Herault
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
plate: 5 3/8 x 3 15/16 in. (13.7 x 10 cm) sheet: 9 1/2 x 6 7/16 in. (24.2 x 16.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Susan Schulman Printseller and Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints, 2009
Accession Number
2009.468.17
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold the refined *Portrait of René Herault a delicate etching and engraving attributed to Dupin after Jean-Etienne Liard. This intimate print captures the likeness of its male subject with the precision characteristic of 18th-century European portraiture. Liotard, a celebrated Swiss artist known for his lifelike pastels and meticulous, often inspired such reproductive prints, allowing his elite sitters to reach wider through the burgeoning art ofmaking. The medium—ing for fluid lines and for sharp definition—exifies the technical virtuosity the Rococo era. just 5 38 x 3 15/16 inches on the ...