Villa Borghese
Medium
Etching, with watercolor and gouache
Dimensions
Mat: 23 1/4 × 32 1/4 in. (59.1 × 81.9 cm) Image: 20 1/4 × 29 5/16 in. (51.5 × 74.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2009
Accession Number
2009.388
Tags
About the Artist
Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros|Giovanni Volpato · 1748–1810
Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros, born on July 21, 1748, in Moudon, Switzerland, was the son of Jean-Rodolphe Du Cros, a writing and drawing master who taught at Yverdon College after the family relocated there. Destined initially for commerce following his father's death in 1764, Ducros pursued art passionately. He trained for two years (1769–1771) under Chevalier Nicolas-Henri-Joseph de Fassin at a...