Hercules Holding a Club by Giuseppe Maria Crespi, red chalk
Summary
Hercules Holding a Club by Giuseppe Maria Crespi, red chalk, 14½ x 10¾ in. (370 x 273 mm.)
Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747) nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo ("The Spaniard"), was an Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits, but he is now most famous for his genre paintings. Giuseppe Crespi, together with Giambattista Pittoni, Giovan Battista Tiepolo, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Canaletto and Francesco Guardi forms the traditional great Old Masters painters of that period
Date
1747
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Copyright info
public domain