Design for a Vase

A black chalk drawing of an elaborate covered vase on a tall footed pedestal. Scrolling brackets shaped like masks and foliage support the bowl, and the drum and lid are decorated with volutes and swags. Soft stumped shading gives the forms depth against the pale ground.

Look closer: Faint sketched lines and marks in the lower left corner, below the pedestal.

Artist

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Date

Medium

Black chalk, stumped

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2152 × 3139 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948