Portrait of Marguerite Le Comte
Claude Henri Watelet|Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin
1764 · Etching · Drawings and Prints
This rare proof state of Watelet's etching is based on a drawing by art student Étine Lavallée-Poussin (2013.181). It depicts Watelet's mistress and traveling companion Marguerite Le Comte seated at a table on their visit to Rome in 1764. In etching the plate, Watelet made certain additions to Lavallée-Poussin's composition, adding details such as the etching tools and the print unfurled over the table edge that identify Le Comte as an amateur printmaker.
- Artist
- Claude Henri Watelet|Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin
- Date
- 1764
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2012
