Francois Philippe Charpentier
Francois Philippe Charpentier belongs to the eighteenth-century European printmaking tradition, working above all in etching and drawing his subjects from classical antiquity and its monuments. The single sheet held here, an etching from 1765, takes the Tomb of Julius Caesar as its subject and represents the period of the artist's activity documented by the Met. Because the dated impressions in this collection fall within that single year, the archive offers a narrow but focused glimpse of his graphic work rather than a broad survey.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
