Sketches of Five Statues: Love, Aristides, Putto with a Cat, Psyche, and Putto with a Dog
Medium
Graphite, with inscriptions in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet (folded in half): 9 1/8 × 7 9/16 in. (23.2 × 19.2 cm) Sheet: 9 1/8 × 14 13/16 in. (23.2 × 37.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John De Witt Peltz, 1977
Accession Number
1977.382.5
Tags
MenCatsDogs
About the Artist
John Gibson|Pietro Tenerani|Bertel Thorvaldsen · 1790–1866
Outstanding Neoclassical sculptor who experimented with the ancient practice of coloring statues, e.g. his 'Tinted Venus' (1851). Flaxman encourgaged him to go to Rome, where he spent most of his life. He left his fortune to the National Gallery, London. British sculptor, active Rome. Comment on works: sculptor