Putti with a Small Keyboard Instrument and Music Books

Provenance

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Artist: Daniele Crespi (Italian, Busto Arsizio 1597/1600–1630 Milan)
Date: 1597–1630
Medium: Pen and brown ink
Dimensions: 2-3/8 x 7-3/8 in. (6.0 x 18.8 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Howard J. and Saretta Barnet Gift, and David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. Gift, 1981
Accession no.: 1981.400

Putti with a Mitre, Crosier Mace, Book, and Candle
Daniele Crespi
1597–1630 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019814
Saint John the Baptist, Saint Benedict, King David, and Other Seated Figures
Daniele Crespi
1597–1630 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019816
Raymond Diocrès Speaking During His Funeral (from the Life of Saint Bruno of Cologne)
Daniele Crespi
1628–29 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00021318
Study of Hands (recto); Study for a Reclining St. Francis (verso)
Daniele Crespi
ca. 1628–30 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00024284

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.