DETAILS
- Artist
- Giacomo Ceruti
- Date
- 1710
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 11 5/8 x 7 3/16 in. (29.5 x 18.3 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Anonymous Gift, 2002
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THE ARTIST
Giacomo Ceruti
Giacomo Ceruti, known as 'Pitocchetto,' captured the lives of beggars and the poor with unusual dignity and empathy in 18th-century Italy.
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