The Chimera
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 27.9 × 36 cm (11 × 14 3/16 in.); Plate: 32.3 × 38 cm (12 3/4 × 15 in.); Sheet: 43 × 53 cm (16 15/16 × 20 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
243592
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...