The Drawing Lesson
Medium
brush and brown wash over graphite on cream laid paper, laid down, with a framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 32.5 x 37.7 cm (12 13/16 x 14 13/16 in.) overall (framed): 57.2 x 61.6 cm (22 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Anonymous Partial and Promised Gift
Accession Number
2000.99.1
Art Historical Context
**The Drawing Lesson** (1777) by Françoisré Vincent invites visitors into an intimate glimpse of artistic education in late 18th-century France Created with brush and brown wash over on cream laid paper, delicate drawing measures 32.5 x 37.7 cm and captures a tender moment likely between a teacher and young pupil, emphasizing the foundational role of drawing in classical training. Vincent, a prominent French history painter and pupil of Joseph-Marie Vien crafted this work during a pivotal era when the Académie Royale promoted rigorous draftsmanship amid the shift from Rococo ornamentation to N...
About the Artist
François-André Vincent · 1746–1816
French painter and draughtsman. He was one of the principal innovators in French art of the 1770s and 1780s, in the field of both Neo-classical subjects and themes from national history. Comment on works: Portraits; History