The Governess
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 14 11/16 × 10 1/2 in. (37.3 × 26.7 cm) Sheet: 15 in. × 10 9/16 in. (38.1 × 26.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number
24.63.527
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Siméon Chardin|Louis Surugue|Bernard Lepicié · 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 ...