Title: An Allegory Comparing Music and Poetry
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1740
Artist:  Michel François Dandré-Bardon 
Artist bio: French, Aix-en-Provence 1700–1783 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk and traces of black chalk, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions: sheet: 21 7/16 x 15 13/16 in. (54.5 x 40.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Ivan Phillips Gift and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Male Nudes, term: Female Nudes, term: Harps, term: Centaurs, term: Pegasus