Tomb with Caryatids
Louis Jean Desprez
1779/84
Medium
Aquatint and etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 32.5 × 48.5 cm (12 13/16 × 19 1/8 in.); Sheet: 33.8 × 49.9 cm (13 5/16 × 19 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
245149
About the Artist
Louis Jean Desprez · 1743–1804
Louis Jean Desprez (1743–1804), born in Auxerre to a wig-maker father and widowed mother, began his artistic training as a twelve-year-old apprentice under engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin in Paris in 1755. He later studied at the Académie royale d'architecture, sponsored by architect Pierre Desmaisons, and became a pupil of Charles de Wailly from 1768 to 1776, embracing neoclassicism inspired by I...