The Embroiderer
Medium
Mezzotint
Dimensions
plate: 8 7/16 x 6 1/4 in. (21.5 x 15.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Chester Dale Bequest, by exchange; funds from various donors; The Henfield Foundation Gift; Janice and Roger Oresman Gift; The Elisha Whitelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund; Charles Z. Offin Fund, and Dr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Elkind Gift, 2005
Accession Number
2005.223
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Siméon Chardin|Jacques Fabien Gautier Dagoty · 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 ...