The Drawing Lesson
Medium
Etching, engraving; second state
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 12 1/4 in. (28.5 × 31.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.535
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Siméon Chardin|Jacques Philippe Le Bas|Jacques Philippe Le Bas · 1699–1779
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, born on November 2, 1699, in Paris to a cabinetmaker father who crafted billiard tables, grew up immersed in the city's artisan world on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice. His early training came through apprenticeships with the history painters Pierre-Jacques Cazes, where he honed academic drawing techniques, and Noël-Nicolas Coypel, whose assignment to copy a musket ...