Sheet of Studies: Three Male Heads, a Lion and a Mouse
Pierre Jean David d'Angers
1800–1856
Medium
pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 3/16 in. (24.1 x 18.3cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989
Accession Number
1989.286.3
Tags
LionsHeadsMenMice
About the Artist
Pierre Jean David d'Angers · 1788–1856
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers, born on March 12, 1788, in Angers, France, to a wood carver and ornamental sculptor father who had fought in the Republican army, began his artistic training locally under Marchand and Jean-Jacques Delusse at the École centrale d'Angers from 1806 to 1807. In 1808, he arrived in Paris with scant funds and entered the studio of Philippe-Laurent Roland, later working under...