La fontaine (The Fountain)
- Medium
- Etching with Engraving on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 28 × 31.2 cm (11 1/16 × 12 5/16 in.); Sheet: 38.9 × 51.4 cm (15 3/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- engraving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
engraving (printing process)engravingprintingprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
In 1752 Charles Nicholas Cochin became the guardian of the King's drawing collection and in 1755 the secretary of the Royal Academy, where he worked closely with the still-life and genre artist Jean Simeon Chardin to hang the annual Salons.
