The Capture of Selinus by Hannibal
Medium
Etching and aquatint with drypoint, state II/II
Dimensions
sheet: 20 15/16 x 29 1/16 in. (53.2 x 73.8 cm) image: 17 11/16 x 28 1/4 in. (44.9 x 71.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Hill-Stone Inc., 2002
Accession Number
2002.155.1
Tags
About the Artist
Louis Jean Desprez · 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...