Who created "The Painter's Studio"?

The Painter's Studio was created by Henry-Bonaventure Monnier in ca. 1855.

When was "The Painter's Studio" created?

This artwork was created ca. 1855.

Is "The Painter's Studio" in the public domain?

Yes, The Painter's Studio is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

The Painter's Studio

Q: What medium is "The Painter's Studio"?

The Painter's Studio is Pen and ink with colored washes over graphite, on heavy buff wove paper within a drawn ink border.

Henry-Bonaventure Monnier

ca. 1855

Medium

Pen and ink with colored washes over graphite, on heavy buff wove paper within a drawn ink border

Dimensions

7 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (19 x 29.5 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Accession Number

1975.1.672

Tags

InteriorsMenArtistsEasels

Art Historical Context

Step into the bustling heart of creativity with *The Painter's Studio*, a delightful drawing by French artist Henry-Bonaventure Monnier, created around 1855. This intimate interior scene captures the everyday world of artists at work—men surrounded by easels laden with canvases—offering a vivid snapshot of mid-19th-century Parisian artistic life. Monnier, renowned for his caricatures and illustrations of urban vignettes, infuses the composition with a lively sense of activity and camaraderie, evoking the Romantic fascination with the artist's bohemian realm. Executed in pen and ink with subtl...

The Painter's Studio

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