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Design for a Circular Border with Nine Female Figures (the Muses?)
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Design for a Circular Border with Nine Female Figures (the Muses?)

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Luca Penni

1500–1557

Comment on works: Religious