Study for Vignette in Fontenelle's (attr.) "Les Amours de Mirtil", Canto V
Hubert François Gravelot
c. 1761
Medium
Red and black chalk, on gray laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
11.4 × 7.2 cm (4 1/2 × 2 7/8 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52874
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...