Design for a Garden Fête with a Semi-circular Wall and Statues in Niches.
1615–79
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite; some strokes cancelled with white gouache
Dimensions
sheet: 10 3/8 x 13 3/4 in. (26.4 x 35 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift
Accession Number
68.582
Tags
About the Artist
Francesco Allegrini · 1615–1679
Francesco Allegrini (c. 1615/20–after 1679), born likely in Rome to the painter Flaminio Allegrini from Cantiano near Gubbio, emerged from a family of artists that included his sister, Anna Angelica Allegrini. He trained under Giuseppe Cesari, known as the Cavalier d’Arpino, around 1638–40, before entering the studio of Pietro da Cortona, whose dynamic Baroque style profoundly shaped his own. Elec...