Sheet of Studies with Female Figure Kneeling and Embracing Standing Figure
John Flaxman
1775–1826
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite
Dimensions
Overall: 6 15/16 x 4 5/16in. (17.7 x 11cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Kenneth A. Lohf, 1982
Accession Number
1982.235.1
Tags
Women
About the Artist
John Flaxman · 1755–1826
John Flaxman (1755–1826) was born in York, England, the son of John Flaxman Sr., a moulder and seller of plaster casts who ran a studio in London's Covent Garden. Largely self-taught amid his father's stock of classical casts, with minimal formal schooling due to childhood illness, Flaxman displayed prodigious talent early on. At age 12, he won a Society of Arts prize for a medallion; by 15, anoth...