The Return of Joseph
1720–70
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with white heightening, on gray paper (once blue).
Dimensions
sheet: 8 5/8 x 11 1/8 in. (21.9 x 28.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Julien Stock and Gloria Gallucci, 2011
Accession Number
2011.570
Tags
About the Artist
John Michael Rysbrack · 1694–1770
John Michael Rysbrack (1694–1770) was the foremost sculptor working in Britain during the first half of the eighteenth century, a Flemish-born master whose elegant synthesis of Baroque energy and classical restraint dominated English sculptural patronage for decades. Born in Antwerp into a family with artistic connections, he trained in the traditions of Flemish sculpture before arriving in London...