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Shoe-Black

Jacopo Amigoni

18th century

Shoe-Black by Jacopo Amigoni

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 9 13/16 x 7 1/2 in. (25 x 19 cm) sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 11/16 in. (25.5 x 19.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953

Accession Number

53.522.32

Tags

Boys

Art Historical Context

**Shoe-Black** by Jacopo Amigoni invites visitors into the lively world of 18th-century Europe through this delicate etching, measuring a modest plate size of 9 13/16 x 7 1/2 inches. Created as a print from the Drawings and Prints department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it belongs to The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, acquired through the Elisha Whittelsey Fund in 1953. The tag "Boys" hints at its focus on youthful figures, likely portraying a shoeblack—a young boy tasked with polishing shoes on the bustling streets. Amigoni, a prominent Venetian Rococo artist (1675–1752), was renowned f...

About the Artist

Jacopo Amigoni

A pioneer of the Venetian Rococo, Amigoni's oeuvre consists of decorative frescoes for churches and palaces, history and mythological paintings, and a few etchings. Comment on works: Religious; Mythology; Portraits

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