Study for a second edition, never published, of Colle's "La Partie de Chasse de Henri IV", Act III, Scene 10
before 1766
Medium
Black chalk, with pen and black ink, heightened with touches of white chalk, on oval-shaped gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter moounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
17.7 × 15.1 cm (7 × 6 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113550
About the Artist
Hubert François Gravelot
Hubert-François Bourguignon, known as Gravelot (1699–1773), was a leading French Rococo engraver, illustrator, and designer whose elegant draftsmanship bridged the artistic worlds of France and England. Born in Paris to a tailor, he adopted his pseudonym from a godfather and grew up alongside his elder brother, the geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. After neglecting studies at the Col...