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Design for a Frontispiece; Allegorical Composition with a Young Man Kneeling before a Tree

1615·Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on brown-washed paper·9-7/16 x 6-5/8 in. (24.0 x 16.9 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1615
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on brown-washed paper
Dimensions: 9-7/16 x 6-5/8 in. (24.0 x 16.9 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Giovanni Angelo Canini

Artist

Giovanni Angelo Canini

Painting

Giovanni Angelo Canini was an Italian painter active in Rome during the mid-seventeenth century. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he produced religious and historical compositions in the Baroque manner, with particular attention to dramatic light and figural arrangement.

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