Temple of Isis at Pompeii (illustration to "Voyage pittoresque de Naples et de Sicile")
Medium
Aquatint over etching
Dimensions
sheet: 12 5/16 x 18 9/16 in. (31.2 x 47.2 cm) plate: 10 1/16 x 14 13/16 in. (25.6 x 37.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Accession Number
2018.839.64
About the Artist
Louis Jean Desprez|Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non|Jean Duplessi-Bertaux|Edouard Gautier-Dagoty|Louis-Charles Gautier-Dagoty · 1743–1804
Louis Jean Desprez (1743–1804), born in Auxerre to a wig-maker father and widowed mother, began his artistic training as a twelve-year-old apprentice under engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin in Paris in 1755. He later studied at the Académie royale d'architecture, sponsored by architect Pierre Desmaisons, and became a pupil of Charles de Wailly from 1768 to 1776, embracing neoclassicism inspired by I...