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An Allegory Comparing Music and Poetry by Michel François Dandré-Bardon
Michel François Dandré-Bardon. An Allegory Comparing Music and Poetry, 1740. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).
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An Allegory Comparing Music and Poetry

by Michel François Dandré-Bardon

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Artist
Michel François Dandré-Bardon (French, Aix-en-Provence 1700–1783 Paris)
Date
1740
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk and traces of black chalk, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions
sheet: 21 7/16 x 15 13/16 in. (54.5 x 40.2 cm)
Type
Drawing
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Purchase, Ivan Phillips Gift and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006
Accession no.
2006.64

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