Title: Study for the decoration of the ceiling of the Opéra Comique
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1857
Artist:  Thomas Couture 
Artist bio: French, Senlis 1815–1879 Villiers-le-Bel
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Black chalk on blue paper mounted on cardboard
Dimensions: Sheet with canted corners: 17 3/16 x 17 3/16  in. (43.7 x 43.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1960
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Ceilings