Study of Hands (recto); Study for a Reclining St. Francis (verso)
ca. 1628–30
Medium
Red and white chalk on blue paper (recto); red chalk on blue paper (verso)
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/8 in. × 11 in. (20.7 × 28 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2015
Accession Number
2015.15a, b
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...