DETAILS
- Artist
- Andrea del Verrocchio
- Date
- 1465
- Medium
- Tempera and gold on wood
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 26 x 19 in. (66 x 48.3 cm)
- Collection
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
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