Study for a Ceiling of a Salon in the Hôtel de Mazarin

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Artist: François Joseph Belanger (French, Paris 1744–1818 Paris)
Date: ca. 1780
Medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray, brown and colored wash, over black chalk; blue paper mount pasted over edges of drawing, with framing lines in pen and black ink
Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. (47 x 64.1 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession no.: 32.85.5

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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.