Cloister of the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
ca.1777–79
Medium
Pen and gray ink, watercolor over traces of black chalk
Dimensions
8 7/8 x 13 1/4 in. (22.5 x 33.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.20.3
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Louis Jean Desprez|Jean Augustin Renard · 1743–1804
Louis Jean Desprez (1743–1804), born in Auxerre to a wig-maker father and widowed mother, began his artistic training as a twelve-year-old apprentice under engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin in Paris in 1755. He later studied at the Académie royale d'architecture, sponsored by architect Pierre Desmaisons, and became a pupil of Charles de Wailly from 1768 to 1776, embracing neoclassicism inspired by I...