Still Life: Vases, a Cassolette on a Pedestal, and an Overturned Basket of Fruit
Medium
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over graphite.
Dimensions
5 7/8 x 9 1/8 in. (15 x 23.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Van Day Truex Fund, 1984
Accession Number
1984.250
Tags
FruitStill LifeVases
About the Artist
Jean Jacques Lagrenée · 1739–1821
Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, known as Lagrenée the Younger (1739–1821), was a distinguished French history painter, draftsman, and engraver born into a family of artists in Paris. The younger brother of the prominent Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Lagrenée the Elder), he studied under his elder sibling at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, honing his skills in the rigorous academic t...