Study of Drapery

1818

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white, squared in black chalk, on beige paper
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 6 9/16 in. (21.6 x 16.7 cm)
Collection no.: 1996.142.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar. Study of Drapery. Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Margot and Leonard Gordon, 1996. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Study of Drapery — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar. 1818.

Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white, squared in black chalk, on beige paper. Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 6 9/16 in. (21.6 x 16.7 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Margot and Leonard Gordon, 1996.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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