The Three Graces (recto); Four putti engaging in various activities (verso)
1580s
Medium
Pen and black ink, and brush and gray wash and white gouache, on paper prepared with semi-opaque gray watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/16 × 5 15/16 in. (20.4 × 15.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2022
Accession Number
2022.293a, b
About the Artist
Christoph Murer · 1558–1614
Christoph Murer was born in Zurich in 1558 into a dynasty of Swiss artists, the son of the glass painter Josias Murer and grandson of the celebrated painter and dramatist Jos Murer. Growing up surrounded by the craft of stained glass and the broader artistic culture of late Reformation Switzerland, he received thorough training in both glass painting and drawing, eventually becoming one of the mos...