Friar Lawrence and Juliet Discover the Bodies of Romeo and Paris (Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, scene 3)
Medium
Brush and brown and black ink, gouache, and wash. Pen and black ink framing lines added when mounted on blue paper.
Dimensions
sheet: 13 1/8 x 12 5/8 in. (33.3 x 32.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.3521
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 19th century|Anonymous, German, 19th century|William Shakespeare · 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...