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A Saint Addressing Figures from the Steps of a Temple

Antoine Caron

1521–1599

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on light brown paper

Tags

TemplesTreesSaintsCrowd

Dimensions

10-7/8 x 14-1/4 in. (27.6 x 36.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Gifts from Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, Mrs. Francis Ormond, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, William Benton, Donald Silve, William M. Ivins Jr., and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and other gifts, bequests, and funds, by exchange, 1998

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Antoine Caron

1521–1599 • France

Known for his elongated forms, gaudy colors, and strange architecture and space; one of the few French painters of his era to have a distinctive style; his work reflects the unstable atmosphere of the Valois court during the Wars of Religion (1560-1598). Comment on works: history

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