Design for Back of a Sedan Chair
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite
Dimensions
15 1/4 x 8 in. (38.8 x 20.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1967
Accession Number
67.650.2
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century|Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes") · 1700–1800
The artist known as Anonymous, French, 18th century, represents a collective of unidentified talents active roughly between 1700 and 1800, a period of profound artistic evolution in France from the opulent Rococo to the austere dawn of Neoclassicism and Revolutionary fervor. Little is documented about their personal training or mentors, as their anonymity obscures individual biographies, though th...