The Chimera

The Chimera by Louis Jean Desprez

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

print

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

243592

About the Artist

Louis Jean Desprez · 17431804

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...

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