Portret van Marguerite Bécaille
1715
Medium
etching
Dimensions
355; 475
About this artwork
height 475 mm x width 355 mm
Art Historical Context
Welcome to our virtual gallery, where we spotlight *Portret van Marguerite Baille*, a striking 1715 etching by French artist Louis Desplaces. Measuring an impressive 475 mm high by 355 mm wide, this large-scale portrait captures the elegance of early 18th French society during the Regency period, just after Louis XIV's death. Desplaces (1682–1739), a master engraver renowned for his reproductive prints after paintings by contemporaries like Hyacinthe Rigaud, elevated etching to showcase refined portraiture. Etching, Desplaces' chosen medium, involves drawing acid-resistant lines on a metal pl...
About the Artist
Louis Desplaces · 1682–1739
**Louis Desplaces (1682–1739)** was a prominent French engraver and skilled draughtsman, born and died in Paris. Active from 1702 to 1739, he trained in the school of Gérard Audran, the renowned engraver whose precise and supple burin technique profoundly influenced Desplaces's own style. This classical foundation positioned him as a masterful reproductive engraver, bridging the meticulous 17th-ce...