Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Caricature of a Man Pointing

Caricature of a Man Pointing

Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome)

Date: 1610–80

Medium: Pen and brown ink

Dimensions: sheet: 5 1/16 x 4 1/8 in. (12.9 x 10.4 cm)

Classification: Drawings

Credit Line: Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2008

Accession Number: 2008.600

Not on view

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Provenance

sale, Christie's, London03 July 2007, lot 35; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich
Exhibition History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine," September 13, 2011–March 4, 2012.
References

Nadine Orenstein, Constance C. McPhee Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine Exh. cat.: September 13, 2011 - March 4, 2012. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven and London, 2011, cat. no. 19, p. 42, ill.

Sketches for a Wall Tomb with Skeletons

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

(Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome)

Date: 1630–40

Medium: Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (recto); black chalk (verso)

Accession Number: 1998.33a, b

Not on view

Study for a Triton (recto); Anatomical Studies ? (verso)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

(Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome)

Date: 1642-1643

Medium: Red chalk, the background tinted with an almost imperceptible pale brown wash, framing lines in pen and brown ink (recto); black chalk (verso)

Accession Number: 1973.265

Not on view