The Chimera (La Chimère de Monsieur Desprez)
Louis Jean Desprez
ca. 1777–84
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 11 5/16 x 14 7/16 in. (28.8 x 36.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, 1998
Accession Number
1998.248
Tags
Plants
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...