Design for a Medallion: Huntress Kneeling before an Armed Goddess
17th century
Medium
Black chalk, squared in black chalk; framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
6 x 6 1/4 in. (15.2 x 15.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1979
Accession Number
1979.10.4
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About this artwork
This refined drawing by Eustache Le Sueur exemplifies the sophisticated decorative design that flourished in seventeenth-century France. The composition depicts a kneeling huntress before an armed goddess within a medallion format, demonstrating Le Sueur's ability to organize figural compositions within geometric constraints. Le Sueur emerged as one of the leading French painters of his generation, helping establish a distinctly French classical style that drew upon Italian models while developi...
About the Artist
Eustache Le Sueur · 1616–1655
Called "the Raphael of France." Comment on works: History; Religious; Mythology