DETAILS
- Artist
- Jacopo Ligozzi
- Date
- 1567
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 54 7/8 x 33 1/4 in. (139.4 x 84.5 cm)
- Collection
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Gift of Eric Seiler and Darcy Bradbury, and Edward A. and Karen S. W. Friedman, 1991
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