Saint Francis Reading
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
10 1/4 x 7 5/8 in. (26 x 19.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.134
Tags
ReadingSaint FrancisChrist
About the Artist
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1712–1774
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (1712–1774) was a German painter and etcher of considerable versatility, celebrated in his own time for a chameleonic ability to work convincingly in the manner of the great Dutch and Flemish masters of the preceding century. Born in Weimar, he received early training from his father and later studied under Alexander Thiele in Dresden, the city with which his caree...