Study of Drapery
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
ca. 1813
Medium
Black and white chalk with stumping on blue paper, some squaring in black chalk
Dimensions
10 1/16 x 10 1/4 in. (25.5 x 26 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2008
Accession Number
2008.44
Tags
Dresses
About the Artist
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Pierre Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823) was a French painter and draughtsman whose dreamy, sensuous art occupied a singular position between the Neoclassicism and Romanticism that competed for dominance in French painting around 1800. Born in Cluny in Burgundy, he received his early artistic training at the Dijon Academy before winning the Prix de Rome of the Estates of Burgundy, which allowed him to spe...