Art Institute of Chicago
The Public Scribe
Jean Jacques de BoissieuLinkedCulture matchlcp-019aab36d2b4
- Date
- 1790
- Medium
- Etching, drypoint, and roulette on ivory wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 108946
This large plate is characteristic of de Boissieu' s last period of printmaking, which was dominated by his interest in landscapes and scenes of daily life. The influence of seventeenth-century Dutch genre scenes is clear in this work, which depicts the predicament of a writer who must transcribe the message of a young couple although more interesting activities distract his attention. Boissieu used the roulette, a tool with a spiked wheel, to indent the plate and simulate the effects of an inked wash.
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- Credit line
- The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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