Washerwomen
Medium
Etching; second state of four
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 7 13/16 in. (15.8 × 19.9 cm) Plate: 4 3/4 × 6 5/16 in. (12.1 × 16 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of James David Draper, 2000
Accession Number
2000.361.7
Tags
Art Historical Context
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu's *Washerwomen* (1773) is a delicate etching from the second state four, capturing a serene rural scene in late 18th-century France Measuring just 6 1/4 × 7 13/16 inches, this intimate print belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of's Drawings and Prints collection, gifted in 2000. De Boissieu, a-based artist and master etcher influenced by Rembrandt, excelled in pastoral vignettes that romanticize everyday life amid the Lyonnaise countryside. The composition evokes quiet industry: women washerwomen at labor by a stream, surrounded by grazing cows and weathered ruins that...
About the Artist
Jean Jacques de Boissieu · 1736–1810
French, Lyons 1736–1810 Lyons