Studies for Two Armchairs (recto); sketches for Three Chairs and Parts of a Fourth (verso)
Charles Percier
ca. 1800–1805
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
4 5/8 x 7 7/8 in. (11.8 x 20 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955
Accession Number
53.521.11
Tags
Chairs
About the Artist
Charles Percier · 1764–1838
Charles Percier (1764–1838) rose from humble origins in Paris, where his mother laundered for Marie-Antoinette and his father served as a porter at the Tuileries Palace, to become one of France's most influential neoclassical architects and designers. From age twelve, he attended a free drawing school for indigent students, honing his skills in the studio of painter Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée be...