Self-Portrait

Onorio MarinariWW-1627-319489

1627·Black and red chalk on beige paper (the oval portrait); brush and gray wash over black chalk (the drawn frame)·Oval: 5-7/8 x 4-1/2 in. (15.0 x 11.4 cm) Frame: 14-3/8 x 9-11/16 (36.5 x 24.6 cm)

Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. Gift, 1980

Catalogue

Year: 1627
Medium: Black and red chalk on beige paper (the oval portrait); brush and gray wash over black chalk (the drawn frame)
Dimensions: Oval: 5-7/8 x 4-1/2 in. (15.0 x 11.4 cm) Frame: 14-3/8 x 9-11/16 (36.5 x 24.6 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Onorio Marinari

Artist

Onorio Marinari

Drawing

Onorio Marinari was an Italian draughtsman active in seventeenth-century Florence whose drawings demonstrate a precise command of figure and narrative composition. Working primarily in pen and ink, he developed a distinctive approach to biblical and historical subjects that circulated widely among collectors and artists of his time. His sheets reveal careful study of human anatomy and drapery, executed with a disciplined hand that bridges the observational practices of the High Renaissance with the more theatrical spatial arrangements of Baroque art.

Florence, Italy

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