Object Notes

In 1750, Italian artist Giovanni Battista Cipriani traveled from Florence to Rome, where he came into contact with English artists on the Grand Tour, the customary trip around Italy that complemented a classical education for upper-class young men. He became friendly with architect William Chambers and sculptor Joseph Wilton, proponents of a Neoclassical style.

Featuring an etched vignette of a circular Roman temple, this title page served as an introduction to a book by a French artist living and working in Italy.

This etching by Jean-Honoré Fragonard belongs to a series of four prints called the Bacchanals or Satyrs’ Games. His series depicts satyrs and nymphs in the form of relief sculptures set against foliage, loosely inspired by sketches produced by the artist on his second trip to Italy in 1756–61.

This lush drawing by artist Henri-Fantin Latour was made after a painted portrait of Édouard Manet that he created in 1867. The painting, exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1867, shows Manet as a flâneur, or Parisian dandy.

This etching of Édouard Manet was a frontispiece to a biography of the artist published in 1867.