Design for a Tabernacle
ca. 1650–60
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
15 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (39 x 24.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mrs. Carl L. Selden Gift, in memory of Carl L. Selden, 1984
Accession Number
1984.268
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Pierre Puget · 1620–1694
**Pierre Puget** (1620–1694) was a French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose dramatic, emotionally charged works set him apart from the more restrained classicism favored at the court of Louis XIV. Born in Marseille to a stonemason father, he trained as a woodcarver and began his career at age fourteen carving elaborate ornaments for galleys in the local shipyards. In 1640 h...