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Allegory of the Arts
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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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Guy Wildenstein and Stephen A. Geiger Gifts, 2008

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Joseph Marie Vien

1716–1809France

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