DETAILS
- Artist
- Augustin Pajou
- Date
- 1747
- Medium
- Black chalk
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 5 1/8 × 7 3/8 in. (13 × 18.7 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of James David Draper and the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2020
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