Composition with Five Figures in Natural Setting, Two Male, Three Female, with a Lyre (Ponnassus?) (from Sketchbook) 1810 - 1820

"Composition with Five Figures in Natural Setting, Two Male, Three Female, with a Lyre (Ponnassus?) (from Sketchbook)" is a pen-and-ink drawing by American artist Thomas Sully, completed between 1810 and 1820. The artwork, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, showcases Sully's masterful use of line to depict a group of five figures in a natural setting, likely inspired by classical mythology. This sketch, likely created as a preparatory study for a larger work, captures the dynamism and expressiveness of the figures, highlighting Sully's interest in the human form and its interaction with the environment.