The Dinner
1787–89
Medium
Stipple and wash manner
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 5/8 in. (35 × 27 cm) Plate: 13 9/16 × 10 1/2 in. (34.5 × 26.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Georges S. Seligmann, 1965
Accession Number
65.692.4
Tags
Art Historical Context
Louis Marin Bonnet’s *The Dinner* (1787–89) captures a lively social gathering centered on food and conversation. Created in the final years of the French ancien régime, the print reflects the refined domestic rituals of late-eighteenth-century Paris, where dining scenes often served as gentle commentaries on manners, class, and leisure. The presence of both men and women around the table hints at the period’s evolving social codes, just before the upheavals of the Revolution would reshape such gatherings. Executed in the stipple and wash manner—a delicate printmaking technique that combines ...
About the Artist
Louis Marin Bonnet · 1736–1793
Comment on works: Copper engraver