Le Gâteau des Rois, after Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Primary
Jean-Jacques Flipart
(Paris, France, 1719–1782)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1601
MediumEtching and engraving
DimensionsSheet: 21 5/8 × 25 3/16 in. (55 × 63.9 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1999.22
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1999.22
On View
Not on viewThis print is a reproductive engraving after one of Greuze’s most famous compositions. Greuze was unusually aware of the aesthetic and commercial possibilities of printmaking. Flipart was, with Beauvarlet, Cars, and Massard, one of the four engravers he regularly engaged to interpret his designs, and by the 1760s his favorite.