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Design for Over Door

ca. 1760–80

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over graphite

Dimensions

4 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. (12.1 x 19.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Guillaume Boichot

1735–1814France

Trained first in Chalon and then in Paris, Boichot was both an accomplished sculptor and draftsman. His style was markedly neoclassical. He was part of the French Academic system (and introduced by Pajou).