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Messenger at the Door of a Guardhouse

Philippe Louis Parizeau

1786

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over a red chalk counterproof, and traces of graphite

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Dimensions

14 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (37.4 x 23.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1985

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Philippe Louis Parizeau

1740–1801 • France

Comment on works: Painter; etcher; Religious; Engraved Subjects of genre after S. Rosa, Boucher, and Deshays, etc.

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