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A Greyhound in Profile Facing Left

Virgil Solis · 1549

Virgil Solis: German, 1514 - 1562

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A Greyhound in Profile Facing Left

1549

Pen and brown ink over graphite · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Exact year
Medium
Pen and brown ink over graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 3 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. (9.8 x 14.6 cm)
Collection no.
2001.497
Attribution
By the artist
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CC0 1.0License details

Virgil Solis. A Greyhound in Profile Facing Left. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A Greyhound in Profile Facing Left — Virgil Solis. 1549.

Medium: Pen and brown ink over graphite. Dimensions: sheet: 3 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. (9.8 x 14.6 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2001.

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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Virgil Solis. A Greyhound in Profile Facing Left. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.