Assumption of the Virgin; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after Giuseppe Passeri
Medium
Aquatint imitating a chiaroscuro woodcut printed in green and brown over etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 21 in. × 15 1/4 in. (53.3 × 38.8 cm) Plate: 11 11/16 × 9 3/8 in. (29.7 × 23.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960
Accession Number
60.708(133)
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Giuseppe Passeri (Passari)|Nicolas Le Sueur|Paul Ponce Antoine Robert-de-Seri · 1654–1714
**Giuseppe Passeri (1654–1714)** was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active primarily in his native Rome. Born on 12 March 1654, he trained first with his uncle, the painter and biographer Giovanni Battista Passeri, before entering the studio of the leading Roman artist Carlo Maratta. This rigorous preparation shaped his elegant, classicizing approach to composition and figure drawing, ...