Peasant Women from Ragusa
Medium
Graphite, pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor
Dimensions
sheet: 8 11/16 x 5 5/16 in. (22 x 13.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff, 1977
Accession Number
1977.235
Tags
Women
About the Artist
Richard Parkes Bonington|Edward Lear · 1802–1828
Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) was a British painter and watercolorist who, despite dying at the age of twenty-five, produced a body of work that had a profound and lasting influence on French and British painting. Born in Arnold, near Nottingham, he moved with his family to Calais and then Paris in 1817, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Antoine-Jean Gros and copied Old Mas...