Design for a Cartouche (recto); Design for a Cartouche (verso)
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over leadpoint or black chalk
Dimensions
11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. (28.6 x 22.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.600.27
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century · 1500–1640
The artist known only as Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century, remains one of the many unidentified figures whose works survive in museum collections today. Active between roughly 1500 and 1640, this individual produced drawings, ornamental panels, and devotional subjects during a transformative period in Italian art that bridged the late Renaissance and the emerging Baroque. With no rec...