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Seated Man Smoking a Pipe

Publisher Lenfant French
Publisher Niquet French
1755–71
Not on view
Loutherbourg, an Alsatian painter who studied etching in Johann Georg Wille’s academy, clearly admired the prints of the seventeenth-century Neapolitan painter Salvator Rosa, as did many other French printmakers of the time. In the set to which this print belongs (2018.53.1-6), entitled "Second Suite of Figures,"Loutherbourg took up a format associated with Rosa in order to showcase his own inventiveness and fluency.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Seated Man Smoking a Pipe
  • Series/Portfolio: Second Suite of Figures, pl. 1
  • Artist: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (French, Strasbourg 1740–1812 London)
  • Publisher: Lenfant (French, active 1767)
  • Publisher: Niquet (French, active 18th-19th century)
  • Date: 1755–71
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 5 3/16 × 3 3/4 in. (13.2 × 9.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2018
  • Object Number: 2018.53.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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