Design for a Cruet Frame
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and gray-green wash, traces of graphite underdrawing, with framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
5 3/4 x 7 3/8 in. (14.6 x 18.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1978
Accession Number
1978.638.3
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Henri Auguste · 1759–1816
**Henri Auguste (1759–1816)** was a leading Parisian gold- and silversmith renowned for his elegant neoclassical and Empire-style works in *orfèvrerie*. As the only son of the royal goldsmith Robert-Joseph Auguste (1723–1805), he assumed ownership of his father’s workshop in 1784–85 and carried forward the family tradition of refined, classically inspired silverware. Auguste collaborated closely ...