Study for Vignette-Frontispiece in Poncelet's "Principes Generaux Pour Servir à l'Education des Enfants Paris", vol. I
Hubert François Gravelot
c. 1763
Medium
Pen and black ink over black chalk, on gray laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
13.5 × 6.6 cm (5 3/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52884
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...