DrawingsFrench, Lorrainese17th-18th century

Asian Monarch Visiting a Roman Emperor

17th-18th century

Artists

Sébastien Le Clerc the ElderArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, watercolor, and white gouache over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper prepared with white gouache, adhered to canvas

Culture

French, Lorrainese

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22.4 x 30.9 cm (8 13/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest of Frances L. Hofer; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979, inv. no. 1979.177

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