Allegory of the Chase (one of a pair)
French Painter
1770–90
Medium
Oil on canvas, grisaille
Dimensions
Overall: 16 3/8 × 30 3/8 in. (41.6 × 77.2 cm)
Classification
Paintings-Decorative
Culture
French
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
Accession Number
07.225.268 b
Tags
GarlandsMenWomenDogs
About the Artist
French Painter
"French Painter" is a scholarly attribution designation used by art historians and museum curators to catalogue paintings produced in France — or by artists trained in the French tradition — when the specific creator cannot be identified with confidence. Rather than leave a work without provenance context or assign it speculatively to a named artist, curators apply this designation alongside an ap...