Title: Study for a Cartouche
Object type: Drawing
Date: mid-18th century
Artist:  Pierre Edmé Babel 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1720–1775 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash
Dimensions: 15 7/16 x 10 3/8 in.  (39.2 x 26.3 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1957
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Cartouches