Two nude children, one sleeping and the other holding a wreath, from New Book of Children
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 15 3/16 × 10 1/16 in. (38.5 × 25.6 cm) Image: 14 5/8 in. × 10 in. (37.2 × 25.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.2396
Tags
About the Artist
Edme Bouchardon|Jacques Gabriel Huquier|Pierre Alexandre Aveline · 1698–1762
Born 29 May 1698; died 27 July 1762. Bouchardon was a student of Guillaume Coustou, and won the prix de Rome in 1722. He spent ten years (1722-1732) in Rome, Italy working on various projects for Pope Clement XII. In 1732 Bouchardon was recalled to Paris and named sculptor to the king. Bouchardon became a professor at the Académie Royale in 1746. He worked on an equestrian monument of Louis XV, Ki...