Les Pélerins
ca. 1834
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 6 1/4 × 4 13/16 in. (15.8 × 12.2 cm) Sheet: 11 7/16 × 7 13/16 in. (29 × 19.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.500.798
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Les Pélerins"The Pilgrims), aograph from around 1834, captures a poignant moment inside a church, evoking the quiet devotion of worshippers. Attributed to anonymous artists possibly including Jules David and Frey, this intimate print depicts pilgrims gathered in a sacred interior, highlighting the enduring tradition of religious pilgrimage in 19th-century Europe. The French title and subject reflect a Romantic fascination with spirituality and everyday piety amid the era's social upheavals following the Napoleonic Wars. Lithography, the medium here, revolutionized printmaking in the early 18...
About the Artist
Anonymous|Jules David|Frey
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...