
AT-00020802
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The Massacre of the Innocents
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista della Rovere (Italian, Milan ca. 1575–ca. 1630 Milan (?))
- Date
- ca. 1590
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (recto); sketch for the decoration of a spandrel in pen and brown ink over red chalk (verso)
- Dimensions
- 15-11/16 x 21-13/16 in. (39.9 x 55.4 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1963
- Accession no.
- 63.149
Provenance
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