Two Street Criers

Two Street Criers by Pierre Brebiette

Medium

Red chalk over a sketch in black chalk

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 1/2 × 9 in. (24.1 × 22.8 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick and Karen B. Cohen Funds, Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, and John Silberman and Stephen A. Geiger Gifts, 2017

Accession Number

2017.229

Tags

ParisMen

About the Artist

Pierre Brebiette · 15981642

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...

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