DETAILS
- Artist
- John Vanderlyn
- Date
- 1795
- Medium
- Probably Conté crayon on off-white wove paper
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 8 3/16 x 6 1/4 in. (20.8 x 15.9 cm)
- Collection
- The American Wing
- Culture
- American
- Credit line
- Bequest of Ella Church Strobell, 1917
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THE ARTIST
John Vanderlyn
John Vanderlyn, a protégé of Aaron Burr, was the first American painter to study in France, earning a gold medal at the Paris Salon for 'Caius Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage'.
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