Wallpaper Panel depicting Spring with female herm
Medium
Grisaille on green ground
Dimensions
63 1/4 × 39 1/2 in. (160.7 × 100.3 cm)
Classification
Wallpaper|Ornament & Architecture|Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harvey Smith, 1977
Accession Number
1977.595.135
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Percier|Jacquemart et Bénard · 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...