Study for Lucain's "La Pharsale", Canto I
Hubert François Gravelot
c. 1766
Medium
Pen and black ink, heightened with white chalk, on gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
14 × 8.6 cm (5 9/16 × 3 7/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113624
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...