Study of a Woman and Two Children
Sir Joshua Reynolds
18th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink over traces of pencil
Dimensions
8 7/8 x 7 3/16 in. (22.5 x 18.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Culture
British
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.890
Tags
ChildrenWomen
About the Artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1723–1792
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) was a British painter who became the dominant figure in eighteenth-century British art and the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Born in Plympton, Devon, he studied under the portrait painter Thomas Hudson in London, and a transformative visit to Italy (1749–52) — where he studied the Old Masters, particularly the Venetian colorists and Michelangelo — sh...