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Study for Astyanax’s Nurse
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Study for Astyanax’s Nurse

Medium

Black and white chalk, with stumping, on blue paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 11 5/16 × 7 13/16 in. (28.8 × 19.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Louis de Bayser, 2015

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Pierre Paul Prud'hon

1758–1823France

Born 4 April 1758. Student of F. Desvoges, painter, at the École de Dijon. Left Dijon for Paris in 1780. Became a member of the Institut de France in 1816. Comment on works: Portraits, allegory