J-B. Rousseau
Medium
Aquatint on paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 10.9 × 7.5 cm (4 5/16 × 3 in.); Sheet: 18.4 × 13.6 cm (7 1/4 × 5 3/8 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
53642
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup · 1735–1817
Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup (1735–1817) was a French engraver and miniature painter whose long career spanned the final decades of the ancien régime and the upheavals of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. Born in the Landes region of southwestern France, he established himself in Paris as a professional printmaker working across a range of portrait and reproductive subjects. Grateloup's practi...