Diana Visiting the Sleeping Endymion

Quick Overview

Artist: Pietro Antonio Novelli (Italian, Venice 1729–1804 Venice)
Date: 1729–1804
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions: 11 7/16 x 14 15/16in. (29 x 38cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession no.: 80.3.456

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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Pietro Antonio Novelli
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Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00005011
Half-Length Study for a Portrait of a Young Man
Pietro Antonio Novelli
mid-18th–early 19th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00023889
A Venetian Family Portrait Group
Pietro Antonio Novelli
after 1750 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00023890
Design for a Trade Card
Pietro Antonio Novelli
mid-18th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00023891

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