A Drapery Study of a Seated Man
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
early 19th century
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 7/8 in. (29.5 x 22.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Susan H. Seidel Gift, 2008
Accession Number
2008.489
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Men
About the Artist
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · 1789–1869
**Johann Friedrich Overbeck** (3 July 1789 – 12 November 1869) was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene movement. Born in Lübeck into a prominent Protestant family—his father, Christian Adolph Overbeck, was a doctor of law, poet, mystic pietist, and burgomaster—he received early classical and artistic instruction at the local Gymnasium under his uncle. Overbeck left Lübeck in 1806 to st...