Young Boy in Bust-Length
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
ca. 1619–30
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 5/8 × 5 5/8 in. (14.3 × 14.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Otto Naumann and Heidi D. Shafranek, 2016
Accession Number
2016.501
Tags
BoysProfiles
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...