Franconi, Twirling Flaming Cones
Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros
1768–1810
Medium
Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and white gouache
Dimensions
19 x 12 3/4 in. (48.3 x 32.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967
Accession Number
67.539.378
Tags
Men
About the Artist
Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros · 1748–1810
Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros, born on July 21, 1748, in Moudon, Switzerland, was the son of Jean-Rodolphe Du Cros, a writing and drawing master who taught at Yverdon College after the family relocated there. Destined initially for commerce following his father's death in 1764, Ducros pursued art passionately. He trained for two years (1769–1771) under Chevalier Nicolas-Henri-Joseph de Fassin at a...