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Sketches for a Wall Tomb with Skeletons

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1598–1680

Maximum print size

Frame
27.9 × 35.6 cm · 11.0 × 14.0 in
Mat opening
22.1 × 29.0 cm · 8.7 × 11.4 in
Mat border, sides
3.0 cm · 1.2 in
Mat border, top and bottom
3.3 cm · 1.3 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date
1630–40
Medium
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (recto); black chalk (verso)
Type
Drawings
Size
29.2 × 22.4 cm · 11.5 × 8.8 in
Orientation
portrait
Subjects
Skeletons
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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