Study for Vignette in Fontenelle's (attr.) "Les Amours de Mirtil", Canto IV
Hubert François Gravelot
c. 1761
Medium
Black chalk, on gray laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
11.5 × 7.2 cm (4 9/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52875
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...