Study for Vignette in Voltaire's "La Pucelle d'Orleans", with Sketches of Heads and Nude Figures
Hubert François Gravelot
c. 1762
Medium
Pen and brown and gray ink, over graphite and red chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
16.6 × 10.7 cm (6 9/16 × 4 1/4 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52848
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...