Design for the Bow of a Key (?)

Design for the Bow of a Key (?) by Anonymous, French, 19th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of graphite on laid paper, framing lines in blue crayon

Dimensions

sheet: 4 7/16 x 3 3/4 in. (11.3 x 9.6 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, 1952

Accession Number

52.570.30

About the Artist

Anonymous, French, 19th century · 18001900

**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...

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