Rocaille (Rock Garden)
Medium
Etching with engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 5/8 x 9 13/16 in. (49.8 x 25 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.1086
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical world of 18th-century French Rococo *Rocaille (Rock)*, a captivating etching and engraving created around 1737 by renowned painter François Boucher and master engraver Claude Augustin Duos le Jeune. large-scale print (nearly 20 x 10 inches) depicts an ornate rock garden, br with asymmetrical cascades of shells, foliage, and fantastical stone formations—a hallmark of the *rocaille* style, evoking the playful, nature-inspired exuberance that defined the era. Boucher, a leading figure in the Rococo movement, which flourished in Louis XV's France as a lighter, more intimat...
About the Artist
Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune|François Boucher (French|French|French) · 1700 |1703 |1700 –1786 |1770 |1786
French, Paris 1700–1786 Paris|French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris|French, Paris 1700–1786 Paris