Study for an illustration in Tacitus "Tibère, ou Les Six Premiers Livres des Annales" Book I, Vol. 1, 2nd Study
c. 1768
Medium
Pen and black ink, with black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on pale gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
11.4 × 7.1 cm (4 1/2 × 2 13/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113646
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...