Archangel Holding a Lily in a Landscape with Clouds Bearing Putti (Fragment of a Scene of the Annunciation)
Medium
Pen and brown ink. Traces of framing outlines in pen and brown ink from the old mount on drawing surface
Dimensions
10-1/8 x 4-15/16 in. (25.7 x 12.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887
Accession Number
87.12.134
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes") · 1700–1800
Giovanni di Lorenzo Larciani (1484–1527), a Florentine painter known initially as the "Master of the Kress Landscapes," emerged from obscurity in the mid-1990s through the scholarship of Louis Waldman, who linked him to documents including a 1521 contract for an altarpiece. Born and active in Florence until his death, Larciani specialized in religious scenes enriched by vivid, atmospheric landscap...