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Sketches of Seven Sculptures: The Four Seasons, Venus and Adonis, A Beggar, and Salmacis
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Sketches of Seven Sculptures: The Four Seasons, Venus and Adonis, A Beggar, and Salmacis

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John De Witt Peltz, 1977

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About John Gibson

1790–1866United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandWales

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