Design for a Clock
Late 18th Century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray, yellow, and green wash
Dimensions
13 5/16 x 9 1/2 in. (33.8 x 24.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1960
Accession Number
60.692.4
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century|Jean Charles Delafosse · 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...