Plate 17: Marcolfa shows Cacasenno a horse, from "Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno"
Giuseppe Maria Crespi
1705–15
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 8 15/16 × 5 7/8 in. (22.7 × 15 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.535.17
Tags
HorsesChildrenWomen
About the Artist
Giuseppe Maria Crespi · 1665–1747
Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period whose innovative genre scenes and unorthodox approach to religious painting made him one of the most original artists of early eighteenth-century Bologna. Born in Bologna, he trained under Domenico Maria Canuti, Carlo Cignani, and in the tradition of the Carracci academy, but developed a markedly personal style tha...