View of Port St. Bernard
Medium
Color aquatint with etching and engraving in black ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 40.5 × 61.9 cm (16 × 24 3/8 in.); Sheet: 48.6 × 65.4 cm (19 3/16 × 25 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
2087
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Gouache views of Paris were very popular in the 1780s, and color prints emulating them became highly marketable. This rare proof is one of the most expensive of such views offered at the height of the market, in 1784.