La Folie l'égare (Folly Adrift)
Pierre Paul Prud'hon|Jean-Baptiste Mallet
ca. 1810–20
Medium
Black and white chalk on buff paper
Dimensions
11 1/8 x 14 in. (28.3 x 35.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
Accession Number
2007.49.558
Tags
PuttiBoatsWomen
About the Artist
Pierre Paul Prud'hon|Jean-Baptiste Mallet
Pierre Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823) was a French painter and draughtsman whose dreamy, sensuous art occupied a singular position between the Neoclassicism and Romanticism that competed for dominance in French painting around 1800. Born in Cluny in Burgundy, he received his early artistic training at the Dijon Academy before winning the Prix de Rome of the Estates of Burgundy, which allowed him to spe...