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Anacréon

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Charles Monnet
1732-1809?

Anacréon

Image: 3 3/16 x 1 15/16 (82 x 50 mm); on sheet: 5 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches (147 x 111 mm)
Pen and black ink with gray wash, on paper.
1986.2128

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from item.
Inscriptions/Markings
Drawing signed below in ink, "C. Monnet inv. del."; at upper left, in ink, "Anacréon".
Summary

Drawing shows the poet seated with his lyre with his arm held across his chest as Eros stands before him, brandishing an arrow.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department