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
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...