Rustic Scene – A Woman Washing Clothes in a Stream
Medium
Gouache
Dimensions
5 3/4 x 4 5/8 in. (14.6 x 11.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.543
Tags
WomenLandscapesWashing
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century|Jean Michel Moreau the Younger · 1700–1800
The artist known as Anonymous, French, 18th century, represents a collective of unidentified talents active roughly between 1700 and 1800, a period of profound artistic evolution in France from the opulent Rococo to the austere dawn of Neoclassicism and Revolutionary fervor. Little is documented about their personal training or mentors, as their anonymity obscures individual biographies, though th...