Hunters with Dead Game in a Landscape
Medium
Black chalk, reinforced with colored chalks, brush, gouache, and brown ink, on blue paper
Dimensions
9 3/4 x 15 13/16 in. (24.8 x 40.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.103.1
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Art Historical Context
**Hunters with Dead Game in a Landscape** is a captivating preparatory drawing attributed to the Italian artists Giovanni Agostino Cassana and his son Giovanni Battista Cassana, active in Genoa during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Dated broadly to 1600–1800, it exemplifies the Baroque interest in dynamic genre scenes and naturalistic details. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, this work on blue paper measures 9 3/4 x 15 13/16 inches and was acquired through the Rogers Fund in 1963. The composition bursts with life: hunters with their dogs and ...
About the Artist
Giovanni Agostino Cassana|Giovanni Battista Cassana (Italian|Italian) · 1665 |1668 –1720 |1738
Italian, Venice ca. 1665–1720 Genoa|Italian, Venice (?) 1668–1738 Mirandola