Study of Two Women Grieving
before 1787
Medium
Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash
Dimensions
sheet: 13 3/8 x 9 7/16 in. (34 x 24 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Catherine G. Curran, Jeffrey L. Berenson, PECO Foundation, and Susan H. Seidel Gifts, 2007
Accession Number
2007.275
Tags
About the Artist
John Flaxman · 1755–1826
John Flaxman (1755–1826) was born in York, England, the son of John Flaxman Sr., a moulder and seller of plaster casts who ran a studio in London's Covent Garden. Largely self-taught amid his father's stock of classical casts, with minimal formal schooling due to childhood illness, Flaxman displayed prodigious talent early on. At age 12, he won a Society of Arts prize for a medallion; by 15, anoth...