Ornamental Sketches with Grotesque Masks
Pierre Puget
1601 to 1650
Medium
black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 29.9 x 20.8 cm (11 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1974.2.2
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Pierre Puget · 1620–1694
**Pierre Puget** (1620–1694) was a French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose dramatic, emotionally charged works set him apart from the more restrained classicism favored at the court of Louis XIV. Born in Marseille to a stonemason father, he trained as a woodcarver and began his career at age fourteen carving elaborate ornaments for galleys in the local shipyards. In 1640 h...