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Satyrs and Nymphs; verso: partial counterproof of Heintz's "Studies for the Flight into Egypt" in The Courtauld Gallery, London
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Satyrs and Nymphs; verso: partial counterproof of Heintz's "Studies for the Flight into Egypt" in The Courtauld Gallery, London

Medium

Brush and black ink, red chalk, gray and sanguine washes, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk and graphite underdrawing, incised, on off-white paper prepared with yellow wash, laid down to another sheet of laid paper; verso of secondary support: partial offset of a drawing in black and red chalk

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (23.5 x 32 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, 2006 Benefit Fund, 2007

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Joseph Heintz the Elder

1564–1609GermanySwitzerland

Comment on works: Religious; Mythology; Portraits