The Virgin Immaculate
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and light brown wash; framing outlines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 10 1/4 x 4 13/16 in. (26.1 x 12.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1968
Accession Number
68.172.2
Tags
About the Artist
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1591–1666
Guercino — the nickname meaning "squint-eyed" — was born Giovanni Francesco Barbieri in Cento, near Ferrara, in 1591. Largely self-taught in his early years, he absorbed the dramatic chiaroscuro of Ludovico Carracci's work in Bologna and the naturalistic innovations spreading from Caravaggio's circle, forging from these influences a highly personal style of extraordinary expressive power. By his e...