Study for "The Hours," Hôtel Pereire, Paris
Alexandre Cabanel
ca. 1864
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 6 5/8 in. (31.1 × 16.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harvey Salzman, 2020
Accession Number
2022.25.3
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Alexandre Cabanel · 1823–1889
Alexandre Cabanel was a leading French academic painter born on September 28, 1823, in Montpellier. The son of a carpenter, he displayed artistic talent early and began formal training at age eleven at the local École des Beaux-Arts under Charles François Matet. In 1839 he received a municipal scholarship that enabled him to move to Paris, where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1840 and ...