A Man and a Woman Embracing
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk
Dimensions
7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in. (20.0 x 14.0 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, by exchange, 1998
Accession Number
1998.52
Tags
MenWomen
About the Artist
baron Antoine Jean Gros · 1771–1835
Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835) was born in Paris to the miniature painter Jean-Antoine Gros and the artist Pierrette-Madeleine-Cécile Durand. Displaying prodigious talent from childhood, he began drawing under his father's tutelage at age six. In 1785, at just fourteen, Gros entered the studio of Jacques-Louis David, the preeminent Neoclassical master, while attending classes at the Collège M...