Study for Vignette in Abbé Dinouart's "Vie du Venerable don Juan de Palafox", p. 256
Hubert François Gravelot
c. 1767
Medium
Pen and black ink over graphite, on gray laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
13.1 × 8 cm (5 3/16 × 3 3/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52895
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...