The Entry of the Baron of Caprice to the Home of Miss Favors (Entré du Baron du Caprice chez Melle des Faveurs)
second half 18th century
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 13 3/4 x 9 1/16 in. (35 x 23 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.734.5
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical world of 18th-century French with *The Entry of the Baron ofrice to the Home of Favors*, an anonymous from the second half of century. This playful caricature a comical scene likely involving exaggerated aristocratic figures—a fanciful "Baron of Caprice" making a bold, perhaps ladder-assisted entrance into the domain of "Miss Favors Vivid tags like men in oversized wigs, dogs, and ladders evoke the era's absurd social rituals, poking fun at courtship, fashion excesses, and capricious nobility. Etchings like this were revolutionary for their time, allowing artists to in...
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1700–1800
The artist known as Anonymous, French, 18th century, represents a collective of unidentified talents active roughly between 1700 and 1800, a period of profound artistic evolution in France from the opulent Rococo to the austere dawn of Neoclassicism and Revolutionary fervor. Little is documented about their personal training or mentors, as their anonymity obscures individual biographies, though th...