Portrait of a Young Woman Holding a Mask
Medium
Mezzotint
Dimensions
Plate: 15 3/16 × 10 5/8 in. (38.6 × 27 cm) Sheet: 19 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, PECO Foundation Gift, 2007
Accession Number
2007.157
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta|Johann Lorenz Haid|Johann Christian Leopold · 1682–1754
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was born in Venice in 1682 and trained first under his father, the sculptor and woodcarver Giacomo Piazzetta, before turning decisively to painting. The crucial formative experience of his career came when he traveled to Bologna to study under Giuseppe Maria Crespi, whose dramatic use of chiaroscuro — strong contrasts of light and shadow rooted in the Caravaggesque trad...