“That’s what I love about works on paper: the only restriction is your own genius.”
Curator Femke Speelberg on French artist Ennemond Alexandre Petitot’s eighteenth-century Mascarade à la Grecque; Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées].
Contributors
Femke Speelberg
Curator of Historic Ornament, Design, and Architecture Department of Drawings and Prints
Curator of Historic Ornament, Design, and Architecture Department of Drawings and Prints
Photography by Juan Trujillo
Art Mentioned
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot
Etched and published by Benigno Bossi
Dedicatee Marquis de Felino
1771, 1764
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