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An Ecclesiastic (Pope?) Blessing a Book before the Sacred College
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An Ecclesiastic (Pope?) Blessing a Book before the Sacred College

1580–90

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; traces of framing lines in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

sheet: 8 7/16 x 11 5/16 in. (21.5 x 28.7 cm) maximum; original support

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Anonymous Gift, 2006

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Cesare Nebbia

1526–1614

Italian painter. Comment on works: Religious; Portraits