Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Sketches for a Wall Tomb with Skeletons

1630–40

Dating

Date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Pen and brown ink over black chalk (recto); black chalk (verso)

Dimensions

11-1/2 x 8-13/16 in. (29.2 x 22.4 cm) maximum; irregular borders

Collection no.

1998.33a, b

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Sketches for a Wall Tomb with Skeletons. Gian Lorenzo Bernini; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Edward Pearce Casey Fund and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1998. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.