Child's Head
Medium
Red chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
5 5/8 x 6 in. (14.3 x 15.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887
Accession Number
87.12.61
Tags
HeadsChildrenProfiles
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century|Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1700–1800
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...