Cloister of the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
Louis Jean Desprez|Jean Augustin Renard
ca.1777–79
Medium
Pen and gray ink, watercolor over traces of black chalk
Dimensions
8 7/8 x 13 1/4 in. (22.5 x 33.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.20.3
Tags
ArchesCloisters
About the Artist
Louis Jean Desprez|Jean Augustin Renard · 1743–1804
Louis Jean Desprez (1743–1804), born in Auxerre to a wig-maker father and widowed mother, began his artistic training as a twelve-year-old apprentice under engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin in Paris in 1755. He later studied at the Académie royale d'architecture, sponsored by architect Pierre Desmaisons, and became a pupil of Charles de Wailly from 1768 to 1776, embracing neoclassicism inspired by I...