Designs for Mirror Frames and Sconces
1698–1765
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush with gray and brown wash, over graphite or black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 11 3/4 x 8 in. (29.8 x 20.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.63.274
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Natali III · 1698–1765
Giovanni Battista Natali III (1698–1765) was an Italian painter active during the eighteenth century, belonging to a distinguished artistic dynasty that extended across several generations in northern Italy. The Roman numeral designation indicates his place within this family lineage of artists, a common circumstance in Italian artistic culture where craft and vocation were frequently passed from ...