Cross-Section and Elevation of the Funeral Monument for General François Séverin Marceau (1769-1796)
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray, brown, and pink wash, heightened with white
Dimensions
13 9/16 x 20 3/16 in. (34.4 x 51.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1968
Accession Number
68.783
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century · 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...