Design for a Circular Border with Nine Female Figures (the Muses?)
Luca Penni
1525–35
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; circular outlines done with compass, and the paper is sectioned into five fragments.
Dimensions
each sheet approx.: 4 x 7 in. (10.2 x 17.8 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
59.508.106(1-5)
Tags
Musical InstrumentsWomenPlayingReading
About the Artist
Luca Penni · 1500–1557
Comment on works: Religious