Portrait of Jean-Étienne Liotard
18th century
Medium
Black and red chalk with yellow, blue and red washes
Dimensions
sheet: 8 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (22.6 x 16.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Susan Schulman Printseller and Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints, 2009
Accession Number
2009.468.1
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...