Adrien Perlet, Actor
Henri Grevedon
1838
Medium
graphite heightened with white gouache on buff wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 20.2 × 15.8 cm (7 15/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift in memory of Adolph and Jeanne Zelnick
Accession Number
2019.184.12
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Henri Grevedon · 1776–1860
Pierre-Louis Henri Grévedon (1776-1860) was a French painter, miniaturist, engraver, and lithographer whose career spanned the tumultuous period from the French Revolution through the Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, and into the Second Empire. Born in Paris to an officer in King Louis XVI's guard, Grévedon demonstrated precocious talent, enrolling at the Paris Academy at age eight and winning ...