Trompe l'Oeil Design Including Bills, Calling Cards, an Etching, a Map etc.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush with brown, red, green, and gray wash, over black chalk on cream laid paper
Dimensions
13-3/16 x 12-5/8 in. (33.5 x 32.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 1968
Accession Number
68.557.1
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...