Allegory of Peace
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
4-3/8 x 6 in. (11.1 x 15.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1998
Accession Number
1998.262
Tags
Art Historical Context
### Allegory of Peace Created around 1520, this delicate pen and brown ink drawing, measuring just 4-3/8 x 6 inches, is attributed to Peter Vischer the Younger, a prominent Nuremberg sculptor from a renowned family of artists, or possibly anonymous German or Italian hands of the 16th century Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it exemplifies the Northern Renaissance tradition of intricate line work on paper. Pen and brown ink was a favored medium for preliminary studies and allegorical sketches, allowing artists to convey emotion and symbolism with fluid...