Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over red chalk; framing lines in red chalk, black chalk, and pen and ink, all probably by the artist
Dimensions
sheet: 9 7/16 x 7 3/16 in. (24 x 18.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 2006
Accession Number
2006.393.22
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Giuseppe Passeri (Passari) · 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, ...