Child in a Landscape (from McGuire Scrapbook) — Charles Robert Leslie

DETAILS

Artist: Charles Robert Leslie
Date: 1794
Medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions: 4 5/16 x 5 7/16 in. (11 x 13.8 cm)
Collection: The American Wing
Culture: American
Credit line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926

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THE ARTIST

Charles Robert Leslie

Charles Robert Leslie, an American genre painter, was celebrated for bringing literary scenes to life on canvas, from Shakespeare to Cervantes.

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