Vue de la Grande Façade du Vieux Louvre
Jacques Rigaud
originally published 1729, inscribed 1752
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 9 3/16 x 18 3/16 in. (23.4 x 46.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.1191
Tags
ArchitecturePalacesCarriages
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...