Design for a Festival Float or Barge
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on faded blue paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 16 7/8 in. (26.1 × 42.8 cm) Mount: 12 3/8 in. × 18 11/16 in. (31.4 × 47.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1971
Accession Number
1971.85
Tags
About the Artist
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Prospero Fontana · 1501–1547
Perino del Vaga, born Piero Bonaccorsi in 1501 near Florence, emerged as one of the most elegant painters of the Mannerist era. Orphaned early—his mother died when he was two months old and his father, a gambler turned soldier, left him in the care of a stepmother—Perino received an unconventional start, apprenticed first to a druggist and then to the mediocre Andrea de' Ceri. At age eleven, he en...