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Two Designs for Vases (recto); Variant Design for a Vase (verso)
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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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Robert J. and Phyllis D. Massar Gift, 1977

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

1727–1801France

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, act. in Parma, Italy. Comment on works: Architect; Engraver; Draftsman