AT-00019926
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The Birth of Adonis
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Marcantonio Franceschini (Italian, Bologna 1648–1729 Bologna)
- Date
- ca. 1684
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
- Dimensions
- 9 9/16 x 15 15/16in. (24.3 x 40.5cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of The Drawing Shop, 1961
- Accession no.
- 61.156
More by Marcantonio Franceschini in museum collections
Study of a Young Woman Playing a Tambourine, and Studies of an Arm, Hands, and Feet (Studies for "Miriam Leading the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharoah"
Marcantonio Franceschinic. 1711 · Drawing
Cartoon Fragment for Adolescent Angel Leaning on a Tablet or Closed Book
Marcantonio Franceschinica. 1690–95 · Drawing
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-00019926
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