Study for Vignette-Frontispiece of Tacitus "Tibère, ou Les Six Premiers Livres des Annales", Vol. 1
c. 1768
Medium
Pen and black ink, with graphite and red chalk, on gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
5.3 × 4.9 cm (2 1/8 × 1 15/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113633
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Hubert François Gravelot · 1699–1773
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...