Design for a Lady's Writing Desk
Anonymous, French, 18th century
ca. 1770–85
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor
Dimensions
9 7/16 x 14 3/8 in. (24 x 36.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1959
Accession Number
59.611.6
Tags
Desks
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...