Design for the Headpiece of the "Gazette de France"
Medium
Red and black chalk
Dimensions
7 7/8 x 5 in. (20 x 12.7 cm.)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1966
Accession Number
66.759.3
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
HeadsInsignia
About the Artist
Hubert François Gravelot · 1699–1773
Hubert-François Bourguignon, known as Gravelot (1699–1773), was a leading French Rococo engraver, illustrator, and designer whose elegant draftsmanship bridged the artistic worlds of France and England. Born in Paris to a tailor, he adopted his pseudonym from a godfather and grew up alongside his elder brother, the geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. After neglecting studies at the Col...