View of Rome (recto); A Woman's Head In Profile (verso)
ca. 1790–91
Medium
Black chalk, brush and gray wash (recto); pen and iron gall ink (verso)
Dimensions
8 3/8 × 12 15/16 in. (21.3 × 32.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2021
Accession Number
2021.255a, b
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
baron François Gérard · 1770–1837
**Baron François Gérard (1770–1837)** was a leading French Neoclassical painter renowned for his elegant portraits of European royalty and political figures. Born François Pascal Simon Gérard in Rome to a French father serving in the Papal States and an Italian mother, he returned with his family to Paris around 1782. There he began his artistic training, first studying sculpture under Augustin Pa...