Seated man with box in his lap, he rests his right elbow on a taller box
Antoine Watteau|Edmé Jeaurat
ca. 1715–38
Medium
Etching with engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. (14 x 8.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.248
Tags
MenBoxes
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Edmé Jeaurat · 1684–1721
Jean-Antoine Watteau, born in 1684 in Valenciennes to a modest family—his father a roofer named Jean-Philippe Watteau—was the second of four sons who displayed an early passion for art. After initial apprenticeship under local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin, he moved to Paris around 1702, working in workshops copying Flemish and Dutch genre scenes. By 1705, he entered the studio of Claude Gillot, ab...