Walnut Seller
Medium
Etching with some engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 6 5/8 in. (23.2 × 16.8 cm) Image: 8 13/16 x 6 9/16 in. (22.4 x 16.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.588(26)
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Art Historical Context
In the bustling streets of 18th-century, *Walnut Seller* (1738) captures a slice of everyday life through the collaborative talents of sculptor Edme Bouchardon,arian Anne Claude Philippe de Tubièrescomte de Caylus and engraver François Joullain. This intimate print depicts a woman vendor, her basket brimming with walnuts, embodying the era's fascination with genre scenes of ordinary folk amid the elegance of the Ancien Régime. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it reflects the Rococo period's blend of realism and charm, where artists elevated humble trad...