A Classical Landscape with Buildings by a River
Medium
Brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over red chalk
Dimensions
5 7/8 x 7 3/8 in. (14.9 x 18.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Port Royal Foundation Inc. Gift, 1984
Accession Number
1984.51.2
Tags
BuildingsRiversLandscapes
About the Artist
Sébastien Bourdon · 1616–1671
Sébastien Bourdon (1616–1671) was a French Baroque painter of remarkable versatility and restless ambition, whose career carried him from the workshops of Paris to the courts of Rome and Stockholm before he returned to France to become a founding member of one of Europe's most important artistic institutions. Born on 2 February 1616 in Montpellier into a Protestant family, Bourdon was apprenticed ...