Two Warriors, One Standing, The Other Clinging to a Tree

1599–1661

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Red chalk, reworked with pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, on light-brown paper. The verso has been rubbed entirely with red chalk, possibly for transfer, although there are no stylus indentations
Dimensions: 9-5/16 x 5-15/16 in. (23.7 x 15.1 cm); remeasure for maximum
Collection no.: 69.21
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Andrea Sacchi. Two Warriors, One Standing, The Other Clinging to a Tree. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Two Warriors, One Standing, The Other Clinging to a Tree — Andrea Sacchi. 1599–1661.

Medium: Red chalk, reworked with pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, on light-brown paper. The verso has been rubbed entirely with red chalk, possibly for transfer, although there are no stylus indentations. Dimensions: 9-5/16 x 5-15/16 in. (23.7 x 15.1 cm); remeasure for maximum.

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

Credit line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Whitridge Gift, 1969.

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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