Standing man with right hand tucked into his waistcoat, shown in frontal view with his head turned toward the left, from "Figures of Fashion" (Figures de Modes)
ca. 1710
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/8 x 5 7/8 in. (23.1 x 15 cm) plate: 5 1/16 x 3 1/8 in. (12.8 x 8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.74.4
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Julius Model · 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...