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La Folie l'égare (Folly Adrift)
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La Folie l'égare (Folly Adrift)

Medium

Black and white chalk on buff paper

Dimensions

11 1/8 x 14 in. (28.3 x 35.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Pierre Paul Prud'hon

1758–1823France

Born 4 April 1758. Student of F. Desvoges, painter, at the École de Dijon. Left Dijon for Paris in 1780. Became a member of the Institut de France in 1816. Comment on works: Portraits, allegory