Mourning Figures: possibly a copy after a fresco by Cimabue
ca. 1773–75
Medium
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 8 1/8 x 11 13/16 in. (20.6 x 30 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Stefan Ehrenzweig, 1961
Accession Number
61.110
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
George Romney|Giovanni Cimabue · 1734–1802
George Romney (1734–1802) was a British portrait painter who, alongside Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, formed the triumvirate of great English portraitists in the second half of the eighteenth century. Born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, he received his early training from the itinerant portrait painter Christopher Steele before moving to London in 1762. Romney quickly establishe...