Framed Sketch for a Man, a Dog and a Tree
Pier Francesco Mola
1612–66
Medium
Pen and brown ink, black and red chalk and light brown-gray wash
Dimensions
5-3/8 x 7-3/8 in. (13.7 x 18.7 cm) irregular borders
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959
Accession Number
59.644.48
Tags
MenDogsTrees
About the Artist
Pier Francesco Mola
Pier Francesco Mola (1612–1666) was a Roman Baroque painter celebrated for the lyrical quality of his landscapes and the painterly freedom of his figural work, qualities that set him apart from the more rigorous classicism of some of his contemporaries. Born in Coldrerio in the Swiss canton of Ticino, he spent the greater part of his career in Rome, where he underwent an extensive and eclectic for...