The Creation of Eve
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on light brown paper
Dimensions
11-1/8 x 15-11/16 in. (28.2 x 39.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961
Accession Number
61.232
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes")|Etienne Parrocel · 1700–1800
Giovanni di Lorenzo Larciani (1484–1527), a Florentine painter known initially as the "Master of the Kress Landscapes," emerged from obscurity in the mid-1990s through the scholarship of Louis Waldman, who linked him to documents including a 1521 contract for an altarpiece. Born and active in Florence until his death, Larciani specialized in religious scenes enriched by vivid, atmospheric landscap...