The Discovery of the True Cross
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Bernardo Strozzi
Artist bio: Italian, Genoa 1581–1644 Venice
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1581–1644
Medium: Pen and brown ink, over traces of leadpoint or black chalk, on off-white laid paper; framing lines in pen and darker brown ink
Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 11 3/16in. (19.1 x 28.4cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Gifts from Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, Mrs. Francis Ormond, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, William Benton, Donald Silve, William M. Ivins Jr., and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and other gifts, bequests, and funds, by exchange, 1998
Accession year: 1998
Tags: Cross|Crowd