Joaillerie: Album of Jewelry Designs, Page 6
1770 or after
Medium
Brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/4 in. × 8 in. (13.3 × 20.3 cm)
Classification
Albums|Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.129(7)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the opulent world of 18th-century French luxury with *Joaillerie: Album of Jewelry Designs, 6*, a delicate ink drawing attributed to L. van deruycen or an anonymous artist, created around 1770 or later. This intimate sheet, measuring just 5¼ × 8 inches, captures intricate jewelry sketches from an album dedicated to ornamental designs, now housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, thanks to the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund of 1932. Rendered in brown ink—a favored medium for precise architectural and decorative drafting—the page exemplifies the meticulous...
About the Artist
L. van der Cruycen|Anonymous, French (French|Flemish (?)) · 1400 |1750 –2050 |1780
|Flemish?, active Brussels and Paris, ca. 1760–80