Diana at the Bath
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 15 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (39.7 x 46 cm) plate: 12 7/8 x 15 3/16 in. (32.7 x 38.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number
24.63.1477
Tags
About the Artist
Louis Desplaces|Carlo Maratti · 1682–1739
**Louis Desplaces (1682–1739)** was a prominent French engraver and skilled draughtsman, born and died in Paris. Active from 1702 to 1739, he trained in the school of Gérard Audran, the renowned engraver whose precise and supple burin technique profoundly influenced Desplaces's own style. This classical foundation positioned him as a masterful reproductive engraver, bridging the meticulous 17th-ce...