Marcolfa Persuades Cacasenno to Mount a Horse

1665–1747

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Red chalk
Dimensions: 7-15/16 x 5-3/4 in. (20.1 x 14.6 cm)
Collection no.: 1976.57.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giuseppe Crespi. Marcolfa Persuades Cacasenno to Mount a Horse. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Marcolfa Persuades Cacasenno to Mount a Horse — Giuseppe Crespi. 1665–1747.

Medium: Red chalk. Dimensions: 7-15/16 x 5-3/4 in. (20.1 x 14.6 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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