Vignette from the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles
Bernard Picart was a successful engraver active in France and the Netherlands. This drawing belongs to a group of studies he made after works by Charles Le Brun, the leading painter and coordinator of royal projects under Louis XIV. Rather than transcribe an entire composition, he used each sheet to study a vignette of a few figures.
Credit: Gift of Richard A. Berman, 2018
Early 18th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash
13.7 x 9.5cm
2018.844.2
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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