Saint Nicholas of Bari
c. 1610
Medium
pen and brown ink with brush and blue wash, over black chalk, squared in red chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 58.74 × 40.01 cm (23 1/8 × 15 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of the Krugman Family Foundation, Ann and Matthew Nimetz, and Robert B. Loper
Accession Number
2018.94.1
About the Artist
Jacopo da Empoli · 1544–1640
Jacopo Chimenti, known as Jacopo da Empoli (1551-1640), was an Italian Florentine painter whose long career spanned the transition from late Mannerism to early Baroque. Born in Florence on April 30, 1551 (Empoli being his father's birthplace, from which Jacopo derived his artistic name), he became an important figure in the Counter-Maniera or Counter-Mannerist movement that reacted against the com...