Jeune femme drapée, marchant de gauche à droit, portant un vase de métal (Young draped woman, walking from left to right, carrying a metal vase in the style of red-figure vase painting), most likely from Recueil de Différentes Compositions Frises et Ornements dessinées et gravées à la manière du lavis par La Grenée le Juene Se trouve chez l'Auteur, au Louvre et chez Basan, rue et Hôtel Serpente A Paris, in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

Jeune femme drapée, marchant de gauche à droit, portant un vase de métal (Young draped woman, walking from left to right, carrying a metal vase in the style of red-figure vase painting), most likely from Recueil de Différentes Compositions Frises et Ornements dessinées et gravées à la manière du lavis par La Grenée le Juene Se trouve chez l'Auteur, au Louvre et chez Basan, rue et Hôtel Serpente A Paris, in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger) by Jean Jacques Lagrenée

Medium

Etching and aquatint, printed in red and black ink

Dimensions

Sheet: 15 7/8 × 21 7/16 in. (40.3 × 54.5 cm) Plate: 4 5/8 × 3 3/16 in. (11.8 × 8.1 cm)

Classification

Prints|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, The Arthur Ross Foundation Gift and Charles Z. Offin Fund, 1999

Accession Number

1999.2(11)

Tags

OrnamentWomen

Art Historical Context

In the late 18th century, Neoclassical artist Jean-Jacquesrenée the Younger (0–1803) captured the elegance of antiquity in *Jeune femme drapée, marchant de gauche à, portant un vase de* (ca. 1784). This delicate etching and aquatint printed in vibrant red and black inks, a graceful young woman in flowing drapery, striding left to right while balancing a metal vase—a pose evoking processional figures from ancient Greek art. The small plate (4 5/8 × 3 3/16 in.) was part of a larger sheet from Lagrenée's *Recueil de Différentes Compositions Frises et Ornements*, an album of friezes and ornamental...

About the Artist

Jean Jacques Lagrenée · 17391821

Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, known as Lagrenée the Younger (1739–1821), was a distinguished French history painter, draftsman, and engraver born into a family of artists in Paris. The younger brother of the prominent Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Lagrenée the Elder), he studied under his elder sibling at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, honing his skills in the rigorous academic t...

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