Paris leaning on tree stump, back view, from "Oeuvre de Canova: Recueil de Statues..."

Paris leaning on tree stump, back view, from "Oeuvre de Canova: Recueil de Statues..."

Angelo Testa

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The statue is in the collection of the Hermitage where it entered in 1815. It was formerly in the collection of Josephine de Beauharnias in the Castle of Malmaison near Paris, as noted on this engraving.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paris leaning on tree stump, back view, from "Oeuvre de Canova: Recueil de Statues..."Paris leaning on tree stump, back view, from "Oeuvre de Canova: Recueil de Statues..."Paris leaning on tree stump, back view, from "Oeuvre de Canova: Recueil de Statues..."Paris leaning on tree stump, back view, from "Oeuvre de Canova: Recueil de Statues..."Paris leaning on tree stump, back view, from "Oeuvre de Canova: Recueil de Statues..."

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.