Study of the Costume of Monsieur Clément
Medium
Black chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper, faded to gray
Dimensions
21 9/16 x 16 11/16 in. (54.8 x 42.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.139
Tags
CostumesMen
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century|Joseph Marie Vien · 1700–1800
The artist known as Anonymous, French, 18th century, represents a collective of unidentified talents active roughly between 1700 and 1800, a period of profound artistic evolution in France from the opulent Rococo to the austere dawn of Neoclassicism and Revolutionary fervor. Little is documented about their personal training or mentors, as their anonymity obscures individual biographies, though th...