Poster for Raynaud Frères
Anonymous
1841
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Overall: 16 1/8 × 22 3/4 in. (41 × 57.8 cm)
Classification
Posters
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968
Accession Number
68.601.3
Tags
ShipsHorses
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...