Sailboat within a cartouche, after a bas-relief on the Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons (Paris)
possibly mid to late 18th century
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 8 1/8 × 16 5/16 in. (20.7 × 41.4 cm) Image: 7 5/16 in. × 4 in. (18.6 × 10.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.2475
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate etching captures a sailboat elegantly framed within an ornate cartouche, faithfully reproducing a bas-relief from Edme Bouchardon's iconic Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons Paris. Completed between 1739 and 1745, the fountain adorns the Rue de Grenelle and celebrates the city's water supply through allegorical sculptures blending classical grandeur with Rococo flourish. Bouchardon, a leading French sculptor of the 18th century drew from ancient Roman models to create these lively reliefs,izing navigation and commerce amid the seasons' bounty. Created anonymously in the mid- to late 18...
About the Artist
Edme Bouchardon|Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1698–1762
Born 29 May 1698; died 27 July 1762. Bouchardon was a student of Guillaume Coustou, and won the prix de Rome in 1722. He spent ten years (1722-1732) in Rome, Italy working on various projects for Pope Clement XII. In 1732 Bouchardon was recalled to Paris and named sculptor to the king. Bouchardon became a professor at the Académie Royale in 1746. He worked on an equestrian monument of Louis XV, Ki...