Four children playing with dice
Anonymous|Giuseppe Maria Crespi
18th century
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 5 13/16 in. (20.6 × 14.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. Hans Calman, 1965
Accession Number
65.568.3
Tags
BoysDicePlaying
About the Artist
Anonymous|Giuseppe Maria Crespi
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...