
Study for Decoration of the Obelisk at Port-Vendres
1783 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray and green wash; Framing lines in pen and brown and black ink and wash
9 3/16 x 14 3/16 in. (23.3 x 36 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Charles de Wailly was a French architect and urbanist, and furniture designer, one of the principals in the Neoclassical revival of the Antique. His major work was the Théâtre de l'Odéon for the Comédie-Française (1779–82). In his designs, de Wailly showed a predilection for the perfect figure, the circle.
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