Sheet of Sketches: Crowd and Individual Figures
Medium
Graphite, with traces of pen and black ink, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
19.3 × 25.2 cm (7 5/8 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113785
About the Artist
Pierre Antoine Mongin · 1761–1827
Pierre-Antoine Mongin (1761–1827) was a prolific French painter, engraver, and designer whose career bridged the late Enlightenment and the Romantic era. Born in Paris, little is known of his early life beyond his formal training at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture from 1782 to 1785, where he studied under the esteemed history painters Noël Hallé, Gabriel-François Doyen, and Françoi...