Interior Elevation of Reims Cathedral with a Statue of King Louis I and an Altar placed at Front
Medium
Pen and black ink, watercolor, over graphite
Dimensions
30 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (76.9 x 47.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1956
Accession Number
56.559.2
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Percier|Pierre François Léonard Fontaine · 1764–1838
Charles Percier (1764–1838) rose from humble origins in Paris, where his mother laundered for Marie-Antoinette and his father served as a porter at the Tuileries Palace, to become one of France's most influential neoclassical architects and designers. From age twelve, he attended a free drawing school for indigent students, honing his skills in the studio of painter Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée be...