The Consecration of a Bishop
18th century
Medium
Brush and gray wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on beige paper. Shaped framing lines and ruled vertical and horizontal lines in graphite.
Dimensions
27.4 x 36.0 cm.
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1971
Accession Number
1971.238.2
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century · 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...