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Temple of the Muses
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Temple of the Muses

Charles Monnet | Jean Michel Moreau the Younger

ca. 1777

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash over graphite underdrawing

Tags

LionsBirdsTemplesMusesDogs

Dimensions

7 5/8 X 12 1/16 in. (19.3 X 30.7 cm.)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1955

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Charles Monnet

1732–1810 • France

Comment on works: History; Portraits; Decorative

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