Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (recto). Variant Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (verso)
Giovanni Battista Natali III
1698–1765
Medium
Brush and gray ink, brush and gray wash
Dimensions
4 3/8 x 3 7/8in. (11.1 x 9.8cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Ian Woodner Family Foundation Gift, 1974
Accession Number
1974.605.5
Tags
Ornament
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 ...