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Design for the Garden of a Hotel on Rue des Amandiers, Paris

Design for the Garden of a Hotel on Rue des Amandiers, Paris by Anonymous, French, 18th century

Medium

Pen and black and brown ink, watercolor, over graphite

Dimensions

27 5/16 x 18 3/16 in. (69.4 x 46.2 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Wrightsman, 1970

Accession Number

1970.736.53

About the Artist

Anonymous, French, 18th century · 17001800

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...

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