The Dragon and the Bee

ca. 1514–36

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: 3 3/8 x 4 15/16 in. (8.5 x 12.6 cm)
Collection no.: 49.97.142
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Agostino dei Musi. The Dragon and the Bee. Agostino dei Musi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Dragon and the Bee — Agostino dei Musi. ca. 1514–36.

Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: 3 3/8 x 4 15/16 in. (8.5 x 12.6 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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