Art, literature & history
The Drawing Lesson
1777
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- brush and brown wash over graphite on cream laid paper, laid down, with a framing line in brown ink
- Dimensions
- sheet: 32.5 x 37.7 cm (12 13/16 x 14 13/16 in.) overall (framed): 57.2 x 61.6 cm (22 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2000.99.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
François-André Vincent. The Drawing Lesson. François-André Vincent; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fran%C3%A7ois-Andr%C3%A9_Vincent,_The_Drawing_Lesson,_1777,_NGA_112159.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Drawing Lesson — François-André Vincent. 1777.
Medium: brush and brown wash over graphite on cream laid paper, laid down, with a framing line in brown ink.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 32.5 x 37.7 cm (12 13/16 x 14 13/16 in.) overall (framed): 57.2 x 61.6 cm (22 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2000.99.1. Anonymous Partial and Promised Gift.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.