Drawin
Louis Jean Desprez
1784–1792
Medium
Pen and ink, brush and brown wash, squared in black chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 13 9/16 in. (21 × 34.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2014
Accession Number
2014.484
Tags
AmphitheatresSpectators
About the Artist
Louis Jean Desprez · 1743–1804
Louis Jean Desprez (1743–1804), born in Auxerre to a wig-maker father and widowed mother, began his artistic training as a twelve-year-old apprentice under engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin in Paris in 1755. He later studied at the Académie royale d'architecture, sponsored by architect Pierre Desmaisons, and became a pupil of Charles de Wailly from 1768 to 1776, embracing neoclassicism inspired by I...