Design for Pediment with Two Heraldic Crests, Lions and a Crown
Medium
Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and gray wash.
Dimensions
sheet: 4 7/8 x 12 15/16 in. (12.4 x 32.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.50.116
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century|Jean Charles Delafosse · 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...