Design for a Canopy Bed in an Alcove
ca. 1770–90
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash
Dimensions
14 15/16 x 20 7/16 in. (38 x 51.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971
Accession Number
1971.513.7
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century|Victor Louis · 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...