Allegories of Africa and America
Medium
Pen, black ink, brown wash, heightened with white on paper
Dimensions
5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in. (14.3 x 18.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959
Accession Number
59.208.96
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Claude Louis Desrais · 1746–1816
**Claude-Louis Desrais (1746–1816)** was a French painter and draughtsman renowned for his elegant drawings and contributions to fashion illustration and genre scenes during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Born in Paris, he came from an artistic family as the grandson of Louis Desrais, a master painter and gilder, and the son of Louis-André Desrais, a painter associated with th...