Vignette with a Medal depicting Harpocrate and Lotus Flowers, Volume I, Page 12, from Description des Principales Pierres gravées du Cabinet de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans Premier Prince du sang. A Paris chez M. l'abbé de la Chau au Palais-Royal M. l'abbé Le Blond au collége Mazarin Et chez Pissot, libraire, quai des Augustins
Medium
Etching and engraving; third state of three (Bocher)
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 11/16 in. (29.5 × 22 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and The Elisha Whittelsey Funds, 1961
Accession Number
61.653.35(1)
Tags
Art Historical Context
This exquisite etching and engraving, created by Augustin de Saint-Aubin around 1778–80, graces page 12 of Volume I in *Description des Principales Pier gravées du Cabinet de S.S. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans Published in Paris by collaborators including L'Abbé de la Chau, L'Abbé Le Blond, andissot, the book catalogs the elite gem collection of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, reflecting the 18th-century French aristocracy's passion for classical antiquities during the Enlightenment. Such catalogs were scholarly treasures, blending art, history, and connoisseurship to showcase intaglios and...
About the Artist
Augustin de Saint-Aubin|Pissot|L'Abbé La Chau|L'Abbé Le Blond · 1736–1807
Comment on works: Illustrator; Engraver