Figure of Young Man or Woman in Bust-length, in Three-Quarter View
Carlo Maratti
1700–1713
Medium
Black chalk on gray prepared paper
Dimensions
9 3/8 x 6 3/4in. (23.8 x 17.1cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887
Accession Number
87.12.96
Tags
Portraits
About the Artist
Carlo Maratti · 1625–1713
Son of a Dalmatian father. Known as the last major Italian artist of the classical tradition, which had originated with Raphael. He created a grandiose and decorative style that was valued by his ecclesiastical patrons. Comment on works: History; Religious.