Painting (La Peinture): a monkey seated at an easel, dressed in a robe and beret and holding a painter's palette, a framed painting hanging on the wall beyond
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 5/16 in. (25.6 x 18.5 cm) plate: 9 13/16 x 6 7/8 in. (25 x 17.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.249
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Louis Desplaces|Marguerite Caillou Chéreau · 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...