Design for a Funerary Monument: Four Draped Mourning Female Figures
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper
Dimensions
13.7 × 24.3 cm (5 7/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
95716
About the Artist
John Michael Rysbrack · 1694–1770
John Michael Rysbrack (1694–1770) was the foremost sculptor working in Britain during the first half of the eighteenth century, a Flemish-born master whose elegant synthesis of Baroque energy and classical restraint dominated English sculptural patronage for decades. Born in Antwerp into a family with artistic connections, he trained in the traditions of Flemish sculpture before arriving in London...