About this work

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) painted this in about 1532–35, aged about 25. It is now at The Met in New York.

How it was made

Opaque watercolour: Watercolour made opaque with white or chalk and laid in flat, even layers. Persian and Indian painters ground their colours from minerals, applied them with the finest brushes and burnished the finished page.
Pen and ink: Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)

Italian, 1501–1547 · Born in Florence; died in Rome.

Rights and the museum’s record

Public domain. The Met has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.

Object number: 2011.36
Credit: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Type: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Museum record: See it on the museum’s site

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