Seated Man Smoking a Pipe

Niquet|Lenfant|Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1755–71 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Loutherbourg, an Alsatian painter who studied etching in Johann Georg Wille’s academy, clearly admired the prints of the seventeenth-century Neapolitan painter Salvator Rosa, as did many other French printmakers of the time. In the set to which this print belongs (2018.53.1-6), entitled "Second Suite of Figures,"Loutherbourg took up a format associated with Rosa in order to showcase his own inventiveness and fluency.

Artist

Niquet|Lenfant|Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

Date

1755–71

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2018