Standing man with right hand tucked into his waistcoat, shown in frontal view with his head turned toward the left, from "Figures of Fashion" (Figures de Modes)
Antoine Watteau|Julius Model
ca. 1710
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/8 x 5 7/8 in. (23.1 x 15 cm) plate: 5 1/16 x 3 1/8 in. (12.8 x 8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.74.4
Tags
MenProfiles
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Julius Model · 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...