Standing male angel looking down to left and holding a ram; allegory of Summer; after a bas-relief on the Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons (Paris)
Edme Bouchardon|Anonymous, French, 18th century
possibly mid to late 18th century
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 11 in. × 8 1/16 in. (28 × 20.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.2472
Tags
Rams
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...