The Deluge
Pierre Brebiette
ca. 1630–38
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/16 x 7 3/16 in. (23 x 18.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, David T. Schiff and Mrs. Howard J. Barnet Gifts, 2011
Accession Number
2011.447
Tags
AnimalsSufferingFemale NudesRain
About the Artist
Pierre Brebiette · 1598–1642
Pierre Brébiette (c. 1598–c. 1642) was a French painter and etcher whose elegant, sensuous treatment of classical mythology and allegory earned him a significant reputation in early seventeenth-century Paris. Born in Mantes-sur-Seine, Brébiette traveled to Italy as a young man and lived and worked in Rome from around 1617 to approximately 1625, absorbing the influences of ancient sculpture, Renais...