Portrait of Sebastiano Fulli
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 6 1/4 × 4 1/8 in. (15.8 × 10.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965
Accession Number
65.663
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *Portrait of Sebastiano Full*, a delicate etching from 1634 created by Sebastiano Folli and Bernardinoelli. This intimate work, measuring just 6 1/4 × 4 1/8 inches on a trimmed sheet, captures the likeness of its male subject with fine precision, exemplifying the collaborative spirit of 17th Italian printmaking. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it entered the collection through The Elisha Whittelsey Fund in 1965. Etching, the medium here, allowed artists like Folli—a Sienese painter known for his detailed reproductive prints—and his associate C...
About the Artist
Sebastiano Folli|Bernardino Capitelli (Italian|Italian) · 1569 |1590 –1621 |1639
Italian, Siena 1569–1621 Siena|Italian, Siena, 1590–1639