Design for an Altarpiece
late 17th–early 18th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and rose wash
Dimensions
Irregular: 11 15/16 x 9 11/16 in. (30.4 x 24.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1982
Accession Number
1982.1116.3
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century|Anonymous, French, 17th century · 1700–1800
The artist known as Anonymous, French, 18th century, represents a collective of unidentified talents active roughly between 1700 and 1800, a period of profound artistic evolution in France from the opulent Rococo to the austere dawn of Neoclassicism and Revolutionary fervor. Little is documented about their personal training or mentors, as their anonymity obscures individual biographies, though th...