Medium
Etching with some engraving
Dimensions
Image: 8 11/16 x 6 5/8 in. (22 x 16.9 cm) Sheet: 9 1/4 x 6 11/16 in. (23.5 x 17 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.588(1)
Tags
About the Artist
Edme Bouchardon|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · 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...