Design for a Wine Fountain
ca. 1770–1816
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash
Dimensions
10 3/16 x 7 1/16in. (25.8 x 18cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Rogers Fund and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1978
Accession Number
1978.521.9
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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 ...