The Chimera (La Chimère de Monsieur Desprez)
Louis Jean Desprez
ca. 1777–84
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 11 5/16 x 14 7/16 in. (28.8 x 36.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, 1998
Accession Number
1998.248
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Plants
About the Artist
Louis Jean Desprez · 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...