Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5169669
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
HUBERT GRAVELOT
Year
1770
Print run
Publisher
Dimensions
15,3 x 9,7
Printing office
Theme
Details

Oval portrait bust of Hubert-François Gravelot (1699-1773) in a garden. On the left a lady with a brush near a column. On the floor a putto reading a book. Furthermore, various attributes. Copper engraving by Benoît Louis Henriquez (1732-1806), after a design by Gravelot himself. Made in 1770. Signed and dated in print. Hubert-François Bourguignon, better known as Gravelot, was a French engraver, illustrator and designer. In 1732 he emigrated to London, where he became one of the protagonists of the introduction of the Rococo in Great Britain.

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