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Study for Boreas Abducting Oreithyia

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Study for Boreas Abducting Oreithyia

François André Vincent

ca. 1782

Medium

Red, black and white chalk, with stumping

Tags

Hands Female Nudes

Dimensions

20 x 15 3/8 in. (50.8 x 39.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, and Harry G. Sperling and Louis V. Bell Funds, 2000

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About François André Vincent

1746–1816 • France

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

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