The Crossing of the Red Sea (Lunette or Fan?)
Medium
Pen and brown ink over lead on cream laid paper. Rubbed with black chalk or charcoal dust for transfer. Outlines stylus-incised for transfer
Dimensions
9-7/16 x 11 in. (24 x 28 cm) Segment of circle.
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John H. Wright, 1949
Accession Number
49.116.23
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes") · 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...