L'Assomption
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (19 x 12 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.602.929
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate etching and engraving captures the Assumption of the Virgin, a revered Christian subject showing the Virgin Mary’s ascent into heaven. Created through the collaboration of painter François Boucher and master printmaker Jacques Philippe Le Bas, the work translates Boucher’s graceful Rococo vision into a reproducible format. Putti surround the ascending figure while earthly witnesses look on in wonder, their forms rendered with the light, elegant lines typical of eighteenth-century French art. The medium itself holds special significance. Etching and engraving allowed artists like...
About the Artist
Jacques Philippe Le Bas|François Boucher · 1707–1783
Comment on works: Engraver