Mourning Figures: possibly a copy after a fresco by Cimabue
George Romney|Giovanni Cimabue
ca. 1773–75
Medium
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 8 1/8 x 11 13/16 in. (20.6 x 30 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Stefan Ehrenzweig, 1961
Accession Number
61.110
Tags
CorpsesMenWomen
About the Artist
George Romney|Giovanni Cimabue · 1734–1802
George Romney (1734–1802) was a British portrait painter who, alongside Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, formed the triumvirate of great English portraitists in the second half of the eighteenth century. Born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, he received his early training from the itinerant portrait painter Christopher Steele before moving to London in 1762. Romney quickly establishe...