Study for Vignette in Abbé Dinouart's "Vie du Venerable don Juan de Palafox", p. 391
Hubert François Gravelot
before 1767
Medium
Pen and black ink over graphite, on gray laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
12.7 × 7.8 cm (5 × 3 1/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52894
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...