Design for a Frontispiece

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Artist: Bernard Picart (French, Paris 1673–1733 Amsterdam)
Date: 1720
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and black ink
Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (13.4 x 8.5 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Anne K. Jones, in memory of Edward Powis Jones, 2003
Accession no.: 2003.388.1

Formal Garden with Fountain in Foreground
Bernard Picart
n.d. · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003452
Althaea Putting the Fatal Log on the Fire
Bernard Picart
1712 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011490
Presumed Portrait of Alexander the Great
Bernard Picart
1719 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020152
Presumed Portrait of Phocion
Bernard Picart
n.d. · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020153

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