Architectural fantasy
Jean Henri Alexandre Pernet
late 18th century
Medium
Pen and black ink, watercolor
Dimensions
9 in. (22.6 cm.) in diameter
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Julian Clarence Levi, 1966
Accession Number
66.62.3
Tags
Architecture
About the Artist
Jean Henri Alexandre Pernet · 1763–1789
Jean-Henri-Alexandre Pernet (c. 1763–after 1789) was a French artist whose brief career centered on intricate architectural fantasies, capturing the imagination of late 18th-century viewers with his masterful use of watercolor and gouache. Born around 1763, Pernet's early life remains sparsely documented, though records from 1783 place him at age twenty, living with his family on the Rue d’Argente...