Study for Lucain's "La Pharsale", Canto I, Standing Female Figure
c. 1766
Medium
Graphite, with touches of pen and black ink, heightened with traces of white chalk, on gray laid paper, incised for transfer, and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper
Dimensions
12.9 × 8.6 cm (5 1/8 × 3 7/16 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113622
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...