A Cloister

François-Marius Granet

The interior of a grand architectural space is depicted in the image. The perspective leads the eye deeper into the scene through a series of arches. The horizon is not visible, as the focus is on the structural… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: François-Marius Granet ¹
Medium: brown wash over graphite, with touches of scratching out (in the figure by the door) on wove paper ¹
Original: 3,100 × 3,772 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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