Waist-Length Portrait of a Man Wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece, in Profile Facing Left
Medium
Pen and brown ink; accidental red chalk offset
Dimensions
sheet: 6 3/4 x 5 13/16 in. (17.2 x 14.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 2006
Accession Number
2006.393.13
Tags
MenProfiles
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...