Cross Section of the Nave of Reims Cathedral, decorated for the Coronation of King Louis XVIII
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray, blue, yellow, violet, and rose wash
Dimensions
9 11/16 x 27 3/4 in. (24.6 x 70.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1956
Accession Number
56.559.1
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Percier|Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · 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...