Venus Discovering the Death of Adonis

Venus Discovering the Death of Adonis by Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century|Anonymous, German, 17th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white bodycolour, over a sketch in black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

sheet: 4 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (12.4 x 19 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2009

Accession Number

2009.136

Tags

BirdsAdonisVenusDeath

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