An Ecclesiastic (Pope?) Blessing a Book before the Sacred College
Cesare Nebbia
1580–90
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; traces of framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 8 7/16 x 11 5/16 in. (21.5 x 28.7 cm) maximum; original support
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 2006
Accession Number
2006.393.19
Tags
PopesMonks
About the Artist
Cesare Nebbia · 1536–1614
Italian painter. Comment on works: Religious; Portraits