Winged Hippocamp supporting a Vase (recto); Figure Studies and Architectural Design (verso)
16th–early 17th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over red chalk.
Dimensions
4 1/2 x 5 5/16 in. (11.4 x 13.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession Number
52.570.172
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...