View of the Port of St.Paul, Paris
- Medium
- Etching and engraving printed in color from at least four plates on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 47 × 65.2 cm (18 9/16 × 25 11/16 in.); Image/Plate: 40.4 × 61.4 cm (15 15/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
engraving (printing process)printingprintprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Gouache views of Paris were very popular in the 1780s, and color prints emulating them became highly marketable. This rare proof is one of the most expensive of such views offered at the height of the market, in 1784.
