Three Figures with a Dog
Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau (French, 1741–1814)
probably 1800s
Medium
Pen and black ink with brown and gray washes and traces of white gouache (brim of standing man’s hat)
Dimensions
14 × 9.9 cm · sheet: 7.9 × 4.9 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Accession Number
2017.216
Tags
male
About this artwork
An accomplished draftsman in eighteenth-century France, Moreau the Younger produced numerous designs for book illustrations of which this may be an example. In this scene a woman directs the hand of a man as he writes. Raising her left hand, she gestures to the solider to remain at a distance while the small dog reacts to this peculiar encounter.