Putto Poised on Right Leg (recto); Sketch of a Draped Arm (verso)
Domenico Cresti
1575/1600
Medium
Red chalk on cream laid paper (recto), partially laid down and tipped onto tan wove card
Dimensions
37.5 × 25.7 cm (14 13/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112170
About the Artist
Domenico Cresti · 1559–1638
Domenico Cresti (1559–1638), known as Il Passignano after his birthplace, was a Florentine painter who successfully synthesized Venetian colorism with Florentine disegno, creating a distinctive late Mannerist style that earned him prestigious commissions from both the Medici court and the papacy. Born in 1559 in Passignano, near Florence, Cresti received papal knighthood from Pope Clement VIII and...