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Naked archers shooting at a target attached to a herm, Cupid sleeping below, possibly an allegory related to vice
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Naked archers shooting at a target attached to a herm, Cupid sleeping below, possibly an allegory related to vice

Medium

Engraving, red wash on the exposed penises presumably to obscure them

Dimensions

Plate: 9 7/16 × 14 in. (24 × 35.6 cm) Sheet: 11 7/16 × 15 1/2 in. (29 × 39.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, PECO Foundation Gift, 2017

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Michelangelo Buonarroti

1475 –1564 Italian