Tobie effrayé par le poisson (Tobias frightens the fish)
Jean Jacques Lagrenée
late 18th century
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Mount: 18 7/16 × 14 in. (46.8 × 35.5 cm) Sheet: 7 1/4 × 4 15/16 in. (18.4 × 12.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.3774
Tags
MenFishAngels
About the Artist
Jean Jacques Lagrenée · 1739–1821
Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, known as Lagrenée the Younger (1739–1821), was a distinguished French history painter, draftsman, and engraver born into a family of artists in Paris. The younger brother of the prominent Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Lagrenée the Elder), he studied under his elder sibling at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, honing his skills in the rigorous academic t...