Temple of Isis at Pompeii (illustration to "Voyage pittoresque de Naples et de Sicile")
Medium
Aquatint over etching
Dimensions
sheet: 12 5/16 x 18 9/16 in. (31.2 x 47.2 cm) plate: 10 1/16 x 14 13/16 in. (25.6 x 37.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Accession Number
2018.839.64
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Louis Jean Desprez|Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non|Jean Duplessi-Bertaux|Edouard Gautier-Dagoty|Louis-Charles Gautier-Dagoty · 1743–1804
Louis Jean Desprez (1743–1804), born in Auxerre to a wig-maker father and widowed mother, began his artistic training as a twelve-year-old apprentice under engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin in Paris in 1755. He later studied at the Académie royale d'architecture, sponsored by architect Pierre Desmaisons, and became a pupil of Charles de Wailly from 1768 to 1776, embracing neoclassicism inspired by I...