Art, literature & history
The Art of Pleasing
1771
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- etching and aquatint printed in brown
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10.4 x 7.2 cm (4 1/8 x 2 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1998.369
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. The Art of Pleasing. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Bequest of Gordon K. Mott. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Art of Pleasing — Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. 1771.
Medium: etching and aquatint printed in brown. Dimensions: Sheet: 10.4 x 7.2 cm (4 1/8 x 2 13/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.