Design for an Interior Wall Decoration of a Palazzo with Two Doorways and a Decorated Panelling with Trophies
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray, yellow, blue and green wash (only in right half of sheet), over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper. Scales with numbers 5, 10, 20 at bottom
Dimensions
8-11/16 x 18-11/16 in. (22 x 47.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969
Accession Number
69.574.3
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...