Translation de Voltaire au Panthéon Français
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 1/8 × 18 11/16 in. (33.3 × 47.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.600.427
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Jacques Lagrenée|Simon Charles Miger|Caroline Naudet · 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...