Olindo and Sophronia Saved by Clorinda
1726 to 1750
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash and watercolor over graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 47.2 x 35.8 cm (18 9/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation
Accession Number
1996.128.29
About the Artist
Jean-Pierre Norblin · 1745–1830
Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine, born on July 15, 1745, in Misy-sur-Yonne, France, began his artistic training in Paris during the early 1760s. He apprenticed in the studio of Jacques-Philippe Caresme around 1763, then studied under Francesco Casanova circa 1765, mastering battle scenes, genre paintings, and landscapes, as evidenced by his early *Cavalry Skirmish* of 1769. Admitted to the Acad...