Dancing Putto Holding a Drapery
Filippino Lippi
c. 1493/1497
Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 20.3 x 12.8 cm (8 x 5 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1991.190.1.e
About the Artist
Filippino Lippi · 1457–1504
Filippino Lippi was born around 1457 in Prato, the illegitimate son of the celebrated Florentine painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti, who later received a papal dispensation to marry. The family moved to Spoleto, where young Filippino assisted in his father's workshop on the fresco cycle *Life of the Virgin* in the cathedral. Following Fra Filippo's death in 1469, when Filippino wa...