Study of Bucephalus for the Relief "Alexander and Diogenes"
Pierre Puget
1675/76
Medium
Red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laminate board
Dimensions
36.3 × 25.7 cm (14 5/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202298
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Pierre Puget · 1620–1694
**Pierre Puget** (1620–1694) was a French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose dramatic, emotionally charged works set him apart from the more restrained classicism favored at the court of Louis XIV. Born in Marseille to a stonemason father, he trained as a woodcarver and began his career at age fourteen carving elaborate ornaments for galleys in the local shipyards. In 1640 h...