Design for a Flask with Chain Handles

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Artist: Giulio Romano (Italian, Rome 1499?–1546 Mantua)
Date: 1540–46
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of leadpoint or soft black chalk
Dimensions: 10-7/8 x 8-3/4 in. (27.7 x 22.3 cm) Two fragments, 10.7 x 7.7 cm. and 27.7 x 15.5 cm., mounted on a sheet measuring 27.7 x 22.3 cm.
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession no.: 61.136.1

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Giulio Romano
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Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003527
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Giulio Romano
early 1530s · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00005727
Daedalus and Icarus
Giulio Romano
n.d. · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00005728
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Giulio Romano
c. 1520 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011256

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.