Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680)

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680),

1622

Ottavio Mario Leoni, Italian, 1578–1630
2017-57

Leoni established his reputation in early seventeenth-century Rome as the most sought-after society portraitist—producing more than four hundred small finished and lifelike chalk drawings, which captured the facial expressions, hairstyles, and dress of his sitters. Toward the end of his career, Leoni began to make reproductive engravings after his drawings, including this one of the twenty-four-year-old Bernini. Already a local celebrity, he wears the order of a Knight of the Cross of Christ, which had recently been bestowed upon him by Pope Gregory XV as a reward for sculpting his portrait.

Information

Title
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680)
Dates

1622

Maker
Ottavio Mario Leoni
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 14.5 × 11.4 cm (5 11/16 × 4 1/2 in.) sheet: 20.6 × 15.9 cm (8 1/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Charles Scribner III, Class of 1973 and Graduate School Class of 1977
Object Number
2017-57
Place Made

Europe, Italy

Marks/Labels/Seals
In graphite on verso: B.19 ? N332
Culture
European, Italian
Type
engravings, prints
Materials
ink, paper (fiber product)
Techniques
engraving (printing process)
Subject
portraits, artists, men

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