The Public Promenade

Louis Philibert Debucourt

1792 · Etching, engraving, and aquatint printed in color · Drawings and Prints

An accomplished printmaker and social satirist, Debucourt matched wits with British caricaturists as revolutions roiled at home and abroad. While Paris prepared for a bloodbath, Debucourt pictured the swells admiring each other in the Palais Royale gardens. Rowlandson's color aquatint of the satisfied crowd in London's lush Vauxhall Gardens provided inspiration.

Artist

Louis Philibert Debucourt

Date

1792

Medium

Etching, engraving, and aquatint printed in color

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961