Tomb with Death Standing
Louis Jean Desprez
1779/84
Medium
Aquatint and etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 34.3 × 48.8 cm (13 9/16 × 19 1/4 in.); Sheet: 35.5 × 50 cm (14 × 19 11/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
245150
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...