Musée du Louvre; collection des dessins, Le Remouler, par Watteau; from Magasin Pittoresque
ca. 1852
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 6 9/16 × 6 9/16 in. (16.7 × 16.7 cm) Image: 5 7/8 × 4 3/4 in. (15 × 12 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
32.36.63
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Charles Jacque · 1684–1721
Jean-Antoine Watteau, born in 1684 in Valenciennes to a modest family—his father a roofer named Jean-Philippe Watteau—was the second of four sons who displayed an early passion for art. After initial apprenticeship under local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin, he moved to Paris around 1702, working in workshops copying Flemish and Dutch genre scenes. By 1705, he entered the studio of Claude Gillot, ab...