Study for Vignette in Abbé Dinouart's "Vie du Venerable don Juan de Palafox", p. 391
Hubert François Gravelot
c. 1767
Medium
Pen and gray ink with brush and gray-brown wash, with graphite, on gray laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
12.9 × 7.8 cm (5 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52893
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...