An Angel
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on beige paper
Dimensions
16-3/4 x 10-1/8 in. (42.6 x 25.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1964
Accession Number
64.197.1
Tags
Angels
About the Artist
Bartolomeo Passarotti (Passerotti) · 1529–1592
Bartolomeo Passarotti, born in Bologna on June 28, 1529, emerged as a pivotal figure in the Mannerist tradition of northern Italy. Little is known of his earliest years, but by around 1550, he journeyed to Rome, where he studied under the architects Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and the painter Taddeo Zuccari, immersing himself in the city's rich antique collections and Michelangelo's revolutionary w...