Toussaint Louverture on Horseback
Medium
Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (22.2 × 29.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2022
Accession Number
2022.419
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Claude Louis Desrais|Toussaint Louverture · 1746–1816
**Claude-Louis Desrais (1746–1816)** was a French painter and draughtsman renowned for his elegant drawings and contributions to fashion illustration and genre scenes during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Born in Paris, he came from an artistic family as the grandson of Louis Desrais, a master painter and gilder, and the son of Louis-André Desrais, a painter associated with th...