Page from a Sketchbook Depicting a City under Siege and a Scene of Homage(?) (recto); standing figures and a horseman; male and female figures; a battle scene (verso)

Domenico Beccafumi, 1520s

Artist

Domenico Beccafumi (Italian, Cortine in Valdibiana Montaperti 1484–1551 Siena)

Date

1520s

Medium

Pen and brown ink; at the top, traces of a sketch in red chalk (recto); Pen and light brown ink, some of the figures redrawn by the same hand in dark brown ink (verso)

Size

8 9/16 x 5 13/16 in. (21.8 x 14.7 cm)

Type

Drawings

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Licence

Public domain: free to use, no permission needed