AT-00019902
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An Allegory: Male Nude in a Stable with Four Wild Horses
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Prospero Fontana (Italian, Bologna 1512–1597 Bologna)
- Date
- ca. 1532–after 1593
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 4-1/2 x 3-1/4 in. (11.4 x 8.3 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1992
- Accession no.
- 1992.28.2
Provenance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00019902
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