The Lunch
Medium
Stipple and wash manner
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 12 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (31.7 × 24.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Ella Morris de Peyster, 1957
Accession Number
58.560.6
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegant world of late 18th-century France with *The Lunch*, a charming print created between 1787 and 1793 by engraver Louis Marin Bonnet a design by painter Jean-Baptiste Huet I Bonnet, a master of reproductive prints, collaborated frequently with Huet, known for his lively depictions of animals and pastoral scenes in the Rococo. This work, produced in the stipple and wash manner—a refined printmaking technique using fine dots for tonal gradations and soft washes to mimic watercolor—captures delicate textures and luminous effects ideal for intimate, decorative subjects. The sce...
About the Artist
Louis Marin Bonnet|Jean-Baptiste Huet I · 1736–1793
Comment on works: Copper engraver