Juno by Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes")

Medium

Pen and gray ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on cream laid paper. Framing outline in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

7-3/16 x 5-3/4 in. (18.2 x 14.6 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887

Accession Number

87.12.109

Tags

BirdsPuttiJunoChariots

About the Artist

Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes") · 17001800

Giovanni di Lorenzo Larciani (1484–1527), a Florentine painter known initially as the "Master of the Kress Landscapes," emerged from obscurity in the mid-1990s through the scholarship of Louis Waldman, who linked him to documents including a 1521 contract for an altarpiece. Born and active in Florence until his death, Larciani specialized in religious scenes enriched by vivid, atmospheric landscap...

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