Portrait of Susanna Lunden, wearing wide-brimmed hat with feathers

Portrait of Susanna Lunden, wearing wide-brimmed hat with feathers

Louis Philibert Debucourt

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

For more information on wash-manner printmaking, see Colorful impressions: the printmaking revolution in eighteenth-century France by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, p. 177.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Susanna Lunden, wearing wide-brimmed hat with feathersPortrait of Susanna Lunden, wearing wide-brimmed hat with feathersPortrait of Susanna Lunden, wearing wide-brimmed hat with feathersPortrait of Susanna Lunden, wearing wide-brimmed hat with feathersPortrait of Susanna Lunden, wearing wide-brimmed hat with feathers

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.