L'Écolier, from "L'Univers Illustré"
Sir Joshua Reynolds|Henry Linton|Edmond Morin
May 16, 1861
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (32.4 × 24.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Donato Esposito, 2018
Accession Number
2018.614.12
Tags
BoysPortraits
About the Artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds|Henry Linton|Edmond Morin · 1723–1792
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) was a British painter who became the dominant figure in eighteenth-century British art and the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Born in Plympton, Devon, he studied under the portrait painter Thomas Hudson in London, and a transformative visit to Italy (1749–52) — where he studied the Old Masters, particularly the Venetian colorists and Michelangelo — sh...