Woman Looking For Fleas
Giuseppe Maria Crespi
c. 1715
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
46.4 × 38.2 cm (18 1/4 × 15 1/16 in.); Framed: 60.4 × 48.9 × 7 cm (23 3/4 × 19 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
59858
About the Artist
Giuseppe Maria Crespi · 1665–1747
Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period whose innovative genre scenes and unorthodox approach to religious painting made him one of the most original artists of early eighteenth-century Bologna. Born in Bologna, he trained under Domenico Maria Canuti, Carlo Cignani, and in the tradition of the Carracci academy, but developed a markedly personal style tha...