Denijs Calvaert

Denijs Calvaert belongs to the tradition of late Renaissance drawing, working in pen and brown ink over black chalk with touches of red chalk and white gouache on blue paper. His sheets combine figure studies with mythological subjects, as in a winged putto riding a sea horse and lion paired with the Three Graces on the reverse. The archive holds a single sheet from 1574, drawn in the techniques described and dated to that year by the Met.

1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

A Winged Putto Riding a Sea Horse and a Lion (recto); The Three Graces (verso)

1574 · Pen and brown ink, over black chalk (or charcoal), touches of red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper (recto); pen and brown ink over black chalk, on blue paper (verso)