Title: Allegorical Figure of Melancholy
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1763
Artist:  Charles de La Traverse 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1726–1787 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions: 12 x 7 15/16 in.  (30.5 x 20.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Van Day Truex Fund, 1983
Geography: Made in    France      
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Books, term: Women, term: Owls