Title: A man seated in a chair on a stepped platform holds an audience, two pointing men stand in the foreground, from a series of five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1784
Portfolio: Five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Artist: After Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin 
Artist bio: French, born Paris, 1738
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching with engraving
Dimensions: sheet: 6 7/16 x 3 15/16 in. (16.4 x 10 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Architecture, term: Men, term: Women