The Laboring Italian Women
Medium
Engraving; third state of three
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 13 1/2 × 16 15/16 in. (34.3 × 43 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.1522
Rights
Public Domain
Art Historical Context
Created in 1765, *The Laboring Italian Women* is an engraving by Jacques Aliamet after a composition by the celebrated French landscape painter Joseph Vernet. This print, issued in the third state of three, exemplifies the collaborative relationship between painters and printmakers during the eighteenth century, when engravings played a vital role in circulating images of contemporary life and foreign locales to a wide European audience. Vernet was renowned for his atmospheric depictions of the Italian countryside and coastal scenes, and Aliamet’s precise engraving technique translates the or...