Design for a Candelabra
Medium
Red chalk with partial black underdrawing
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 in. × 12 1/4 in. (48.3 × 31.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1960
Accession Number
60.692.1
Tags
About the Artist
Edme Bouchardon|Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1698–1762
Born 29 May 1698; died 27 July 1762. Bouchardon was a student of Guillaume Coustou, and won the prix de Rome in 1722. He spent ten years (1722-1732) in Rome, Italy working on various projects for Pope Clement XII. In 1732 Bouchardon was recalled to Paris and named sculptor to the king. Bouchardon became a professor at the Académie Royale in 1746. He worked on an equestrian monument of Louis XV, Ki...