DETAILS
- Artist
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Date
- 1475
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, and red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 6 3/4 x 5 3/16 in. (17.1 x 13.2 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Herbert N. Straus, 1921
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