Portrait of P. Boursoufle

Portrait of P. Boursoufle

Guillaume Thiemet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This print is bound in an album made up of sixteen early impressions and one later impression of La Live de Jully's "Recueil de caricatures", etched ca. 1754 after drawings by Jacques François Joseph Saly, eight caricatures etched after Thiemet, and two anonymous prints of a standing man and standing woman.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.