Standing Man Leaning on His Elbow

Description

This handsome print belongs to the Figures de Mode, a series of seven etchings by Jean-Antoine Watteau of fashionable ladies and gentlemen. The fancy costumes and elaborate backdrops of park settings or distant landscapes showcased in this series aid in the documentation of theatrical history as well as 18th-century French fashion.

Standing Man Leaning on His Elbow

Jean Antoine Watteau

before 1710

Accession Number

149720

Medium

Etching on cream laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 12.6 × 7.9 cm (5 × 3 1/8 in.); Sheet: 143.7 × 10.1 cm (56 5/8 × 4 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Everett D. Graff Endowment