Iconologie par Figures ou Traité complet des Allegoris
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Overall: 8 7/16 x 5 11/16 in. (21.5 x 14.5 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938
Accession Number
38.38.3(1-4)
Tags
Human Figures
About the Artist
Hubert François Gravelot|Charles Nicolas Cochin II
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...