Landscape with a Scene from Fénelon's Télémaque
Medium
Brush and brown wash, white gouache, on blue-washed paper
Dimensions
17 1/16 x 24 7/8 in. (43.4 x 63.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Schiff Foundation Gift, 1986
Accession Number
1986.233
Tags
MenWomenLandscapesTreesBoats
About the Artist
Jean Jacques Lagrenée · 1739–1821
Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, known as Lagrenée the Younger (1739–1821), was a distinguished French history painter, draftsman, and engraver born into a family of artists in Paris. The younger brother of the prominent Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Lagrenée the Elder), he studied under his elder sibling at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, honing his skills in the rigorous academic t...