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Study for "The Hours," Hôtel Pereire, Paris

Study for "The Hours," Hôtel Pereire, Paris by Alexandre Cabanel

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 ...

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