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
Tags
HermesPlants
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...