# An Old Woman Spinning, in Neoclassicism

Claude-Louis Desrais painted this in 1810–30, aged 64. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

From the museum's label:

> Old woman at work spinning.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: 1810–30
- Medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, white chalk on rough gray paper
- Dimensions: 20.6 x 22.5 cm (8 1/8 x 8 7/8 in.), irregular
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1931-64-204
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Claude-Louis Desrais](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/claude-louis-desrais), French, 1746–1816

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