Design for a Candlestick
18th century
Medium
Graphite, red chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 17 x 8 11/16 in. (43.2 x 22.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Tunick and William P. Gannon Gifts, Rogers Fund and the Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1976
Accession Number
1976.553.2
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...