Chalice for the Coronation of Napoleon I
1804
Medium
Graphite, pen and brown ink, gray and reddish-brown wash
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 7 5/16 in. (26.7 × 18.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Van Day Truex Fund, 2013
Accession Number
2013.544.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...