DETAILS
- Artist
- Jacob de Wit
- Date
- 1700
- Medium
- Red chalk with touches of white chalk on pink tinted paper
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 8 3/8 × 5 7/8 in. (21.3 × 14.9 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard Barsam, in memory of Edgar Munhall, 2018
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THE ARTIST
Jacob de Wit
Jacob de Wit, a Dutch master of ceiling and door paintings, famously documented Rubens's ceilings before their destruction.
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