Vignette with Two Portrait Medallions
Medium
Pen and gray ink with brush and gray wash
Dimensions
3 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (8.5 x 13.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1965
Accession Number
65.717.3
Tags
MedallionsMenProfilesLeaves
About the Artist
Charles Percier · 1764–1838
Charles Percier (1764–1838) rose from humble origins in Paris, where his mother laundered for Marie-Antoinette and his father served as a porter at the Tuileries Palace, to become one of France's most influential neoclassical architects and designers. From age twelve, he attended a free drawing school for indigent students, honing his skills in the studio of painter Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée be...