Study for En Tête Vignette in Tacitus "Tibère, ou Les Six Premiers Livres des Annales", Book V
Hubert François Gravelot
c. 1768
Medium
Graphite, on gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
4.2 × 6.1 cm (1 11/16 × 2 7/16 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113640
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...