Knife Sharpener
Medium
Etching with some engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 3/16 x 6 7/8 in. (23.3 x 17.5 cm) Image: 8 3/4 x 6 7/8 in. (22.2 x 17.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.588(45)
Tags
About the Artist
Edme Bouchardon|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus|François Joullain · 1698–1762
Born 29 May 1698; died 27 July 1762. Bouchardon was a student of Guillaume Coustou, and won the prix de Rome in 1722. He spent ten years (1722-1732) in Rome, Italy working on various projects for Pope Clement XII. In 1732 Bouchardon was recalled to Paris and named sculptor to the king. Bouchardon became a professor at the Académie Royale in 1746. He worked on an equestrian monument of Louis XV, Ki...