Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Interlaced Figures, on a Body Adorned with Bucrania, Garlands, and Three River Gods

Provenance

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Artist: Girolamo Genga (Italian, Urbino (?) 1467–1551 near Urbino)
Date: 1540–50
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; traces of framing outlines in pen and brown ink at left and bottom
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 5/16 x 6 7/8 in. (21.1 x 17.5 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession no.: 49.19.67

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Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00004608
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Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022277
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Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022278

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