View of a Wing of the Palace of Fontainebleau (Vue d'une Aile du Chateau de Fontainebleau), from the series Le Château de Fontainebleau
Jacques Rigaud
Date unknown
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 22.6 × 45.8 cm (8 15/16 × 18 1/16 in.); Sheet: 23.7 × 46.5 cm (9 3/8 × 18 5/16 in.); Image: 20.7 × 44.5 cm (8 3/16 × 17 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
149579
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...