Une Liseuse (Portrait de Madame Huet)
Medium
Crayon-manner etching printed in black and red ink
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 13 1/16 × 10 3/8 in. (33.2 × 26.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950
Accession Number
50.583.5
Tags
About the Artist
Gilles Demarteau|Jean-Baptiste Huet I · 1729–1776
Gilles Demarteau the Elder, born on January 19, 1722, in Liège, began his career steeped in the craft of metalwork. The son of a gunsmith, he learned engraving and goldsmithing from his father before moving to Paris around 1748–1750 to join his brother, who worked as a goldsmith for the engraver De Lacollombe, renowned for firearm ornament designs. Demarteau trained in De Lacollombe's workshop as ...