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Toussaint Louverture on Horseback

Claude Louis Desrais | Toussaint Louverture

ca. 1802

Medium

Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash

Dimensions

Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (22.2 × 29.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2022

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Claude Louis Desrais

1746–1816 • France

Comment on works: Master draughtsman; Painter; Illustrator

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