Sketches of Seven Sculptures: The Four Seasons, Venus and Adonis, A Beggar, and Salmacis
ca. 1850
Medium
Pen and brown ink, graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 3/16 × 13 11/16 in. (23.4 × 34.7 cm) Sheet (left side with Seasons): 6 1/4 × 9 3/16 in. (15.9 × 23.3 cm) Sheet (right side): 7 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (18.7 × 23.5 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
1977.382.1
Tags
About the Artist
John Gibson|Antonio Canova · 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