Design for a Festival Float or Barge

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi), ca. 1530–40

Artist

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

Date

ca. 1530–40

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on faded blue paper

Size

Sheet: 10 1/4 × 16 7/8 in. (26.1 × 42.8 cm) Mount: 12 3/8 in. × 18 11/16 in. (31.4 × 47.4 cm)

Type

Drawings

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Licence

Public domain: free to use, no permission needed