Allegory of Spring, after Sébastien Leclerc
Medium
Brush and gray wash, over red chalk; squared in graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink. Vertical crease just left of center.
Dimensions
4 1/2 x 7 7/16 in. (11.4 x 18.9 cm.)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.223.2
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century|Sébastien Leclerc I|Sébastien Le Clerc, le Jeune · 1700–1800
The artist known as Anonymous, French, 18th century, represents a collective of unidentified talents active roughly between 1700 and 1800, a period of profound artistic evolution in France from the opulent Rococo to the austere dawn of Neoclassicism and Revolutionary fervor. Little is documented about their personal training or mentors, as their anonymity obscures individual biographies, though th...