Gilles Edme Petit
Gilles Edme Petit belongs to the tradition of French printmaking in which etching and engraving carried scenes of daily life into wide circulation. His subjects turn on the quiet rituals of the day, from waking and dressing to dining and the hours marked by a watch. The present group of four sheets follows that arc from morning to evening, all of them executed in etching and engraving, and appears here as impressions that may stem from later printings rather than the first pullings.
4 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
