Study for Boreas Abducting Oreithyia
François André Vincent
ca. 1782
Medium
Red, black and white chalk, with stumping
Dimensions
20 x 15 3/8 in. (50.8 x 39.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, and Harry G. Sperling and Louis V. Bell Funds, 2000
Accession Number
2000.37
Tags
HandsFemale Nudes
About the Artist
François André Vincent · 1746–1816
French painter and draughtsman. He was one of the principal innovators in French art of the 1770s and 1780s, in the field of both Neo-classical subjects and themes from national history. Comment on works: Portraits; History