Putti with a Small Keyboard Instrument and Music Books
1597–1630
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
2-3/8 x 7-3/8 in. (6.0 x 18.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Howard J. and Saretta Barnet Gift, and David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. Gift, 1981
Accession Number
1981.400
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...