Design for a Frieze with the Allegory of Music

A sepia wash drawing in pen and brush shows putti and figures arranged around an open music book on a draped table. A standing youth plays a long flute at left, while a seated figure plucks a lute beside a curtain at right, all within a framed horizontal panel.

Artist

Piat Joseph Sauvage

Date

1785-1790

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

2073 × 1075 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum