Kneeling Figure Wearing a Cope

Kneeling Figure Wearing a Cope by Joseph Marie Vien

Medium

Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on beige paper

Dimensions

16 7/16 x 10 5/16 in. (41.8 x 26.2 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1967

Accession Number

67.116

About the Artist

Joseph Marie Vien · 17161809

Baroque painter and one of the earliest French painters to work in the Neo-classical style. He influenced some of the most prominent artists of heroic Neo-classicism, including his students Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Jean-François-Pierre Peyron, and Joseph-Benoît Suvée. Comment on works: History

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