Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (below), Abraham about to Sacrifice Isaac (above)

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi), 1520

Artist

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) (Italian, Florence 1501–1547 Rome)

Date

1520

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, squared in black chalk, on brownish paper. The empty triangular corners are tinted in gray-green wash, the right diagonal border tinted in gray wash

Size

8 7/8 x 10 1/16in. (22.6 x 25.5cm)

Type

Drawings

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Licence

Public domain: free to use, no permission needed