Design for a Stage Set or Illustration in a Fête Book with a Blank Scroll Above
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over lead or graphite on cream laid paper. Vertical ruled line in graphite at center. Framing lines in graphite and in pen and brown ink; glued onto secondary paper support.
Dimensions
5-3/8 x 2-11/16 in. (13.6 x 6.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession Number
52.570.219
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...