Design for a Lady's Tomb
Medium
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
Dimensions
sheet: 17 1/16 x 11 7/16 in. (43.4 x 29 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.19.27
Tags
Art Historical Context
This exquisite 16th-century drawing, *Design for a Lady's*, attributed to the renowned French architect Jacques Androu du Cerceau or an anonymous contemporary, captures the elegance of Renaissance funerary architecture. Du Cerceau, a master of ornamental design active during France's Fontainebleau School era, was celebrated for his intricate engravings and pattern books that influenced châteaux and monuments across Europe. Created amid the Italian Renaissance's spread northward, this sheet exemplifies the period's fusion of classical motifs—columns, pediments, and sculpted figures—with French ...