Saint John the Baptist Preaching.
1612–66
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and red wash, red chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 7 7/8 x 10 13/16 in. (20 x 27.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jacob Bean, in memory of Donald P. Gurney, 1991
Accession Number
1991.184.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Pier Francesco Mola · 1612–1666
Pier Francesco Mola (1612–1666) was a Roman Baroque painter celebrated for the lyrical quality of his landscapes and the painterly freedom of his figural work, qualities that set him apart from the more rigorous classicism of some of his contemporaries. Born in Coldrerio in the Swiss canton of Ticino, he spent the greater part of his career in Rome, where he underwent an extensive and eclectic for...