Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist
Medium
Etching, printed in brown ink; state before letters
Dimensions
Plate: 11 9/16 × 8 11/16 in. (29.3 × 22 cm) Sheet: 11 11/16 × 8 3/4 in. (29.7 × 22.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Accession Number
2018.839.140
Tags
About the Artist
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)|Francesco Bartolozzi · 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...