Stone Mason at Work
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 4 3/4 × 6 5/16 in. (12 × 16.1 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
53.523.44
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Stone Mason at Work" a delicate etching created in 1762 by Louis Joseph, duc de Chart, a French nobleman and amateur artist from the House of Orléans. Measuring just 4 3/4 × 6 5/16 inches, this intimate print captures a lone stone mason intently laboring with his tools, highlighting the everyday toil of manual work. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, reflects the 18th-century fascination with scenes—depictions of ordinary life amid the grandeur of aristocratic patronage. Etching, the medium here, was a favored intaglio technique of the Rococo era, allo...