The Embroiderer
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 12 in. × 8 3/4 in. (30.5 × 22.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Myra Carter Church Fund, 1957
Accession Number
57.544.8
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the intimate etching *The Embroiderer* (1757), Jean Jacques Flipart masterfully reproduces a composition by Jean Siméon Chardin, the celebrated French Rococo painter renowned for his sensitive depictions of everyday domestic life. Chardin's original likely portrays a woman absorbed in needlework, capturing the quiet dignity of ordinary moments—a hallmark of his style that elevated humble activities to poetic heights. Flipart, a skilled engraver, translates this into an etching on a trimmed sheet measuring 12 × 8¾ inches, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints dep...
About the Artist
Jean Jacques Flipart|Jean Siméon Chardin (French|French) · 1703 |1719 –1770 |1782
French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris|French, 1719–1782