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Apollo and Galatea in a Landscape with Neptune and Three Nymphs

Orazio Samacchini · 1532–1577

Maximum print size

Frame
35.6 × 27.9 cm · 14.0 × 11.0 in
Mat opening
25.7 × 22.6 cm · 10.1 × 8.9 in
Mat border, sides
5.1 cm · 2.0 in
Mat border, top and bottom
2.5 cm · 1.0 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date
1550–60
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, squared for transfer in black chalk (with some corrections to squaring grid); traces of framing outlines in pen and dark brown ink
Type
Drawings
Size
18.0 × 20.5 cm · 7.1 × 8.1 in
Orientation
landscape
Subjects
Apollo, Landscapes, Nymphs
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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