The Embroiderer
Medium
Etching and engraving with stippling; third and final state
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 13 1/8 × 8 1/8 in. (33.3 × 20.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.540
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Siméon Chardin|Laurent Cars|Jean Jacques Flipart · 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 ...