Design for an Empire Daybed
Medium
Pen and ink with brown, red, yellow and green wash
Dimensions
Overall: 12 3/8 × 19 3/8 in. (31.4 × 49.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1970
Accession Number
1970.513.7
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 19th century|Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 1800–1900
**Anonymous, French, 19th Century (ca. 1800–1900)** The artist cataloged as Anonymous, French, 19th century embodies the enigmatic yet essential contributions of unidentified creators to France's vibrant 19th-century art world. Active roughly between 1800 and 1900, this figure—or potentially collective workshop—produced a diverse array of works amid the nation's transition from Neoclassicism thro...