Woman walking and holding her skirt with her right hand, shown in three-quarters view with head turned toward the viewer, from "Figures of Fashion" (Figures de modes)
ca. 1710
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 in. (21 x 15.3 cm) plate: 5 1/16 x 3 1/8 in. (12.8 x 8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.74.1
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About this artwork
Woman walking and holding her skirt with her right hand, shown in three-quarters view with head turned toward the viewer, from "Figures of Fashion" (Figures de modes) is a prints by French artist Antoine Watteau|Julius Model, created in ca. 1710. The work was created using etching. It measures sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 in. (21 x 15.3 cm) plate: 5 1/16 x 3 1/8 in. (12.8 x 8 cm). Printmaking during this period was an essential medium for disseminating artistic imagery and ideas across broad audiences. The...
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Julius Model · 1684–1721
Jean-Antoine Watteau, born in 1684 in Valenciennes to a modest family—his father a roofer named Jean-Philippe Watteau—was the second of four sons who displayed an early passion for art. After initial apprenticeship under local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin, he moved to Paris around 1702, working in workshops copying Flemish and Dutch genre scenes. By 1705, he entered the studio of Claude Gillot, ab...