Costume Drawing: Lady and Gentleman Dancing
1760–1800
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 11 9/16 x 8 1/8 in. (29.3 x 20.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.835.2
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About this artwork
This elegant costume drawing depicts a fashionably attired lady and gentleman engaged in dance, capturing the refinement and social grace of late eighteenth-century French society. Attributed to Louis Binet, a Parisian artist active from 1744 to 1800, the work exemplifies the period's fascination with documenting fashionable dress and courtly manners. Executed in pen and black ink with brush and gray wash over graphite underdrawing, the composition demonstrates sophisticated draftsmanship and ca...