Design for a Frieze with a Grotesque Vase and Festoon with a Ram and Putto.
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 2 3/16 x 4 1/4 in. (5.6 x 10.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.537.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
GrotesquesOrnamentPuttiVases
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...