Allegory of the Arts
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, over faint black chalk underdrawing
Dimensions
sheet: 9 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (24.4 x 35.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein and Stephen A. Geiger Gifts, 2008
Accession Number
2008.524
Tags
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About the Artist
Joseph Marie Vien · 1716–1809
Baroque painter and one of the earliest French painters to work in the Neo-classical style. He influenced some of the most prominent artists of heroic Neo-classicism, including his students Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Jean-François-Pierre Peyron, and Joseph-Benoît Suvée. Comment on works: History