Two Designs for Vases (recto); Variant Design for a Vase (verso)
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk underdrawing (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
Dimensions
13 1/8 x 8 15/16 in. (33.3 x 22.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Robert J. and Phyllis D. Massar Gift, 1977
Accession Number
1977.644
Tags
About the Artist
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot · 1727–1801
Recipient of the Grand Prix in 1745. Court architect to the Bourbons of Parma. Became a citizen of Parma in 1758. Elected a member of the Académie royale d'architecture (France) in Paris in 1762. Macmillan mentions that Petitot worked as urban planner, inventor of decorative displays, technician of hydraulic engineering, engraver and planner of festivals. French architect, printmaker and designer,...