Art Institute of Chicago
La fontaine (The Fountain)
Charles-Nicholas Cochin (French, 1715-1790)
- Date
- 1739
- Medium
- Etching with Engraving on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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