The Chapel of the Enfants-Trouvés in Paris: Religieuses et garçonnets regardant la crèche
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 22 1/2 × 11 1/4 in. (57.2 × 28.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.2421
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intimate warmth of 18th-century with *The Chapel of the En-Trouvés in Paris Religieuses et garçets regardant la crèche (1757), a delicate etching and engraving by designer Charles Joseph Natoire andaver Étienne Fessard. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, this large-format print (trimmed to 22½ × 11¼ inches) captures a tender moment in the chapel of the Hôpital des Enfants-Tvés, a renowned orphanage founded in 1670 for abandoned infants. The scene depicts nuns and young boys reverently gathered around a nativity crèche, their faces illumina...