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)
ca. 1784
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
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 · 1739–1821
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...