Two Men, Depicted Half-Length, in Profile

Two Men, Depicted Half-Length, in Profile by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream paper

Dimensions

8-7/16 x 6-13/16 in. (21.4 x 17.3 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880

Accession Number

80.3.453

Tags

MenProfiles

About the Artist

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 15911666

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...

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