Allegory of Winter, after Sébastien Le Clerc

Allegory of Winter, after Sébastien Le Clerc by Anonymous, French, 18th century|Sébastien Leclerc I|Sébastien Le Clerc, le Jeune

Medium

Brush and gray wash, over red chalk; squared in graphite. Framing lines in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

4 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (11.4 x 18.8 cm.)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1963

Accession Number

63.223.1

Tags

LandscapesWinter

About the Artist

Anonymous, French, 18th century|Sébastien Leclerc I|Sébastien Le Clerc, le Jeune · 17001800

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...

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