DETAILS
- Artist
- Simone Cantarini
- Date
- 1630
- Medium
- Etching
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Plate: 9 1/4 × 5 9/16 in. (23.5 × 14.1 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
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