An Allegory Comparing Music and Poetry

Michel François Dandré-Bardon

Date

1740

Type

Drawing

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk and traces of black chalk, heightened with white gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

2006.64

Credit

Purchase, Ivan Phillips Gift and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006