Fragmentary Sketches of Various Ornament
1698–1765
Medium
Graphite, pen and brown ink, brush with brown and gray wash
Dimensions
sheet: 6 1/16 x 4 7/16 in. (15.4 x 11.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Ian Woodner Family Foundation Gift, 1974. This is a presumable creditline only, as this drawing was found on June 24, 2003, uncatalogued, unmounted, and stuck within another sheet, but with the double accession no. 1974.605.4 written on it, at which point it was renumbered 1974.605.4 bis. Acquisition papers of May and June 1974 also mistakenly do not take this sheet into account, see Natali object file. (Carmen C. Bambach, April 24, 2003)
Accession Number
1974.605.4bis
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 ...