Francisco Rizi

Design for a Frontispiece: Mercury and Fame

1650

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Pen and brown ink with pen and black ink and brush and gray wash. Composition outlined in pen and brown ink. Contours incised and verso blackened with carbon dust for transfer

Dimensions

10-13/16 x 7-1/8 in. (27.5 x 18.1 cm)

Collection no.

1975.131.226

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Francisco Rizi. Design for a Frontispiece: Mercury and Fame. Francisco Rizi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.