Standing male angel looking up and holding a flute; after Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons (Paris)
Anonymous, French, 18th century|Edme Bouchardon
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
53.600.2473
Tags
Angels
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century|Edme Bouchardon · 1700–1800
The artist known as Anonymous, French, 18th century, represents a collective of unidentified talents active roughly between 1700 and 1800, a period of profound artistic evolution in France from the opulent Rococo to the austere dawn of Neoclassicism and Revolutionary fervor. Little is documented about their personal training or mentors, as their anonymity obscures individual biographies, though th...