Two Street Criers
ca. 1630
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
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...