AT-00022575
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Allegory of the Transience of Life
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Christian Richter (German, Altenburg ca. 1585/90–1667 Weimar)
- Date
- 1618
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and brown, blue and pink wash, heightened with white gouache
- Dimensions
- sheet: 5 x 5 15/16 in. (12.7 x 15.1 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2007
- Accession no.
- 2007.123
Provenance
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Open-access museum record · AT-00022575
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