Project for a Statue: Woman Holding Book with Right Hand
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over red chalk and graphite, on cream laid paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper
Dimensions
10.9 × 7.6 cm (4 5/16 × 3 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83488
About the Artist
John Michael Rysbrack · 1694–1770
John Michael Rysbrack (1694–1770) was the foremost sculptor working in Britain during the first half of the eighteenth century, a Flemish-born master whose elegant synthesis of Baroque energy and classical restraint dominated English sculptural patronage for decades. Born in Antwerp into a family with artistic connections, he trained in the traditions of Flemish sculpture before arriving in London...