Designs for a Clock and Two Candelabras
19th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 3/4 in. (15.5 x 24.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1966
Accession Number
66.631.80
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate drawing, titled *Designs for a Clock and Two Candelabras*, the elegance of 19th-century French design by an anonymous artist. Executed in pen and brown ink on a modest sheet measuring 6 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches, it showcases precise sketches of a stately clock flanked by a pair of graceful candelabras. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints department (acquired through the Rogers Fund in 1966), this work exemplifies preparatory studies for luxury decorative arts, common in France's thriving workshops of the era. In the 19th century, France led Europe in opulent fu...
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 19th century · 1800–1900
**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...