View at the Queen's Statue at Stowe, Buckinghamshire
Jacques Rigaud
ca. 1739
Medium
Pen and ink, brush and wash
Dimensions
sheet: 14 11/16 x 21 1/16 in. (37.3 x 53.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942
Accession Number
42.79(14)
About the Artist
Jacques Rigaud · 1681–1754
Jacques Rigaud (1681–1754), born in Puyloubier near Aix-en-Provence to an apothecary father, emerged as one of the eighteenth century's premier topographical draughtsmen and engravers. Little is known of his early training, though he began his career in Marseille under the patronage of Nicolas Lamoignon, Marquis de Basville, governor of Languedoc. His earliest dated work, a panoramic *View of Toul...