Portrait of Pope Marcellus II, right hand raised facing left

ca. 1555

Dating: Approximate
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 15 3/8 × 9 5/8 in. (39 × 24.5 cm) Plate: 14 3/8 × 8 1/4 in. (36.5 × 21 cm)
Collection no.: 28.7.5
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giulio Bonasone. Portrait of Pope Marcellus II, right hand raised facing left. Giulio Bonasone; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1922. 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

Portrait of Pope Marcellus II, right hand raised facing left — Giulio Bonasone. ca. 1555.

Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: Sheet: 15 3/8 × 9 5/8 in. (39 × 24.5 cm) Plate: 14 3/8 × 8 1/4 in. (36.5 × 21 cm).

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

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1922.

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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