Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects

Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects by Pierre François Léonard Fontaine|Charles Percier

Medium

Pen and black and gray ink, graphite, black chalk

Dimensions

15 11/16 x 10 in. (39.8 x 25.4 cm)

Classification

Albums|Drawings|Prints|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963

Accession Number

63.535.107(a–d)

Tags

Architecture

About the Artist

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine|Charles Percier · 17621853

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) was a pivotal figure in French neoclassical architecture, renowned for his masterful interiors, urban planning, and decorative designs that defined the Empire style. Born in Pontoise to architect and fountain designer Pierre Fontaine, he assisted his father on hydraulic projects at the Château de L'Isle-Adam in 1778–1779 before moving to Paris in 1779. ...

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