Design for the Gardens of the Château de Savigny-lès-Beaune
Anonymous, French, 18th century
ca. 1782–90
Medium
Pen and black ink, watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 11/16 × 29 1/8 in. (50 × 74 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2014
Accession Number
2014.773
Tags
ArchitectureGardens
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century · 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...