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Meleager Presents to Atalanta the Head of the Calydonian Boar
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Meleager Presents to Atalanta the Head of the Calydonian Boar

Medium

Pen, brown ink, gray-brown wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk

Dimensions

6 15/16 x 14 1/4 in. (17.7 x 36.2cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Van Day Truex Fund, 1993

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Guillaume Boichot

1735–1814France

Trained first in Chalon and then in Paris, Boichot was both an accomplished sculptor and draftsman. His style was markedly neoclassical. He was part of the French Academic system (and introduced by Pajou).