Bust of a Little Girl
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Plate: 7 5/16 × 5 1/4 in. (18.5 × 13.3 cm) Sheet: 10 13/16 × 8 13/16 in. (27.4 × 22.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Miss Anna E. Roelker, 1940
Accession Number
40.93.3
Tags
About the Artist
baron Dominique Vivant Denon|Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1747–1825
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747–1825), was a multifaceted French artist, diplomat, and archaeologist whose life bridged the Ancien Régime, Revolution, and Napoleonic Empire. Born on January 4, 1747, in Givry near Chalon-sur-Saône to a family of minor nobility originally surnamed "de Non," he was sent to Paris at eighteen to study law. Instead, he pursued art, studying painting under Noël Hallé...