Putti with a Mitre, Crosier Mace, Book, and Candle
Daniele Crespi
1597–1630
Medium
Pen and brown ink on faded blue paper
Dimensions
6-1/4 x 5-3/8 in. (15.9 x 13.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.217
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
BooksWeaponsCroziersCandles
About the Artist
Daniele Crespi · 1597–1630
**Daniele Crespi** (1598–19 July 1630) was an Italian painter and draughtsman active primarily in Milan and regarded as one of the most original artists working there in the 1620s. He broke away from the exaggerated forms of Lombard Mannerism toward an early Baroque style marked by clarity of form, direct emotional appeal, and simplified compositions. A prolific painter of religious history subjec...