Drawings by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince for the Voyage en Siberie

exhibition catalogue cover featuring black and white image of painting of man in native dress holding a staff.

At a Glance

Exhibition
Drawings by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince for the Voyage en Siberie
Dates
April 21, 1987 to June 14, 1987
Museum
The Frick Collection

1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021

Listing type
Past Exhibitions
Description

An exhibition of works by eighteenth-century French artist Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (1734–1781), who won fame in his native country for his colorful depictions of life in contemporary Russia. Included were the twenty-eight surviving drawings, on loan from the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, that were executed by Le Prince to illustrate Abbé Jean Chappe d'Auteroche's Voyage en Sibérie , published in 1768.