Allegory of Shipping
Medium
Pen and black ink with brush and brown wash with white heightening over graphite underdrawing
Dimensions
6 1/8 x 8 3/8 in. (15.5 x 21.3 cm.)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1965
Accession Number
65.717.4
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About the Artist
Charles Percier · 1764–1838
Charles Percier (1764–1838) rose from humble origins in Paris, where his mother laundered for Marie-Antoinette and his father served as a porter at the Tuileries Palace, to become one of France's most influential neoclassical architects and designers. From age twelve, he attended a free drawing school for indigent students, honing his skills in the studio of painter Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée be...