Diana (leaf in Italian Sketch Book, 1750–52)
Sir Joshua Reynolds
1750–52
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 7 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. (18.8 x 13 cm)
Classification
Sketchbooks
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William A. White, 1918
Accession Number
18.121(120)
Tags
Diana
About the Artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1723–1792
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) was a British painter who became the dominant figure in eighteenth-century British art and the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Born in Plympton, Devon, he studied under the portrait painter Thomas Hudson in London, and a transformative visit to Italy (1749–52) — where he studied the Old Masters, particularly the Venetian colorists and Michelangelo — sh...