Art, literature & history
Scene of Antique Sacrifice
1762–1844
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and pink wash, over traces of black chalk or graphite. Framing outlines in pen and brown ink, and, at the left border, in graphite
- Dimensions
- 9-1/8 x 13-11/16 in. (23.1 x 34.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 1970.177
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison. Scene of Antique Sacrifice. Giuseppe Bernardino Bison; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1970. 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
Scene of Antique Sacrifice — Giuseppe Bernardino Bison. 1762–1844.
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and pink wash, over traces of black chalk or graphite. Framing outlines in pen and brown ink, and, at the left border, in graphite. Dimensions: 9-1/8 x 13-11/16 in. (23.1 x 34.7 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1970.
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.