Ciborium for the Coronation of Napoleon I
Charles Percier
1804
Medium
Graphite, pen and brown ink, gray and reddish-brown wash
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. (26.7 × 18.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Van Day Truex Fund, 2013
Accession Number
2013.544.1
Tags
Liturgical Objects
About the Artist
Charles Percier · 1764–1838
Charles Percier (1764–1838) rose from humble origins in Paris, where his mother laundered for Marie-Antoinette and his father served as a porter at the Tuileries Palace, to become one of France's most influential neoclassical architects and designers. From age twelve, he attended a free drawing school for indigent students, honing his skills in the studio of painter Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée be...