Elevation and Top View of a Design for a Lidded Box
ca. 1720–1740
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and yellow wash, and red chalk over graphite
Dimensions
3 7/8 x 3 1/16 in. (9.8 x 7.8 cm.)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1944
Accession Number
44.66.3
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Hubert François Gravelot
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...