The Fountain

Prints and Drawings

1739

Charles-Nicholas Cochin (French, 1715-1790)
after Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin (French, 1699-1779)

In 1752 Charles Nicholas Cochin became the guardian of the King’s drawing collection and in 1755 the secretary of the Royal Academy, where he worked closely with the still-life and genre artist Jean Simeon Chardin to hang the annual Salons.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Charles-Nicholas Cochin, the younger
Title: The Fountain
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1739
Medium: Engraving on paper
Dimensions: Plate: 28 × 31.2 cm (11 1/16 × 12 5/16 in.); Sheet: 38.9 × 51.4 cm (15 3/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Elizabeth Gott Templeton Endowment
Reference Number: 1997.655
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