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Kneeling Figure Wearing a Cope
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Kneeling Figure Wearing a Cope

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1967

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Joseph Marie Vien

1716–1809France

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