Jean Jacques de Boissieu
French, 1736-1810
Old Man with a Boy Reading
INV-7390
Jean Jacques de Boissieu
French, 1736-18101770
Old Man with a Boy Reading
Jean Jacques de Boissieu French, 1736-1810 →etchingprint
Date
1770
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 18 × 12 cm (7 1/8 × 4 3/4 in.); Plate: 18.6 × 12.6 cm (7 3/8 × 5 in.); Sheet: 21.3 × 14.8 cm (8 7/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Arthur Churchill in memory of William McCallin McKee
Jean Jacques de Boissieu was a self-taught artist in Lyon who visited Italy in 1765-66. He produced his most intense prints in the years 1758-64, 1770-82, and after 1789.
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