Four Putti with Bow and Arrows on Clouds above a Landscape with a Tower
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash ; some red chalk transferred
Dimensions
sheet: 11 x 7 7/16 in. (27.9 x 18.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Richard Krautheimer, 1994
Accession Number
1997.281
Tags
About the Artist
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1591–1666
Guercino — the nickname meaning "squint-eyed" — was born Giovanni Francesco Barbieri in Cento, near Ferrara, in 1591. Largely self-taught in his early years, he absorbed the dramatic chiaroscuro of Ludovico Carracci's work in Bologna and the naturalistic innovations spreading from Caravaggio's circle, forging from these influences a highly personal style of extraordinary expressive power. By his e...