Old Man with a Boy Reading

Description

Jean Jacques de Boissieu was a self-taught artist in Lyon who visited Italy in 1765-66. He produced his most intense prints in the years 1758-64, 1770-82, and after 1789.

Old Man with a Boy Reading

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

1770

Accession Number

7390

Medium

Etching on paper

Dimensions

Image: 18 × 12 cm (7 1/8 × 4 3/4 in.); Plate: 18.6 × 12.6 cm (7 3/8 × 5 in.); Sheet: 21.3 × 14.8 cm (8 7/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Arthur Churchill in memory of William McCallin McKee