Medium
Engraving with stipplework; second state
Dimensions
Image: 12 11/16 x 9 15/16 in. (32.3 x 25.2 cm) Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/16 in. (36.8 x 25.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.526
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Siméon Chardin|Bernard Lepicié|Louis Surugue|Bernard Lepicié · 1699–1779
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, born on November 2, 1699, in Paris to a cabinetmaker father who crafted billiard tables, grew up immersed in the city's artisan world on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice. His early training came through apprenticeships with the history painters Pierre-Jacques Cazes, where he honed academic drawing techniques, and Noël-Nicolas Coypel, whose assignment to copy a musket ...