A Group of Figures Surrounding Two Bird-coops
Bernardo Bellotto
1697–1768
Medium
Pen and brown ink over lead or graphite underdrawing
Dimensions
8 3/16 x 11 9/16 in. (20.8 x 29.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 1997
Accession Number
1997.454
Tags
Human Figures
About the Artist
Bernardo Bellotto · 1722–1780
Bernardo Bellotto (1722–1780) was an Italian painter of exceptional gifts who carried the art of the veduta — the precisely observed topographical view — from Venice across the courts of northern Europe, leaving behind some of the most detailed and haunting urban panoramas in the history of Western painting. Born in Venice, he was the nephew and pupil of the great vedutista Giovanni Antonio Canal,...