An Allegory of Charity
ca.1770–90
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash
Dimensions
sheet: 5 11/16 x 7 13/16 in. (14.4 x 19.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Anna Mont, in memory of Frederick Mont, 2010
Accession Number
2012.98.6
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About the Artist
Jean Jacques Lagrenée · 1739–1821
Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, known as Lagrenée the Younger (1739–1821), was a distinguished French history painter, draftsman, and engraver born into a family of artists in Paris. The younger brother of the prominent Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Lagrenée the Elder), he studied under his elder sibling at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, honing his skills in the rigorous academic t...