AT-00023309
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An Antique Sacrificial Scene (recto); Sketch of a Group of People (verso)
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Johann Eleazar Zeissig, called Schenau (German, Grossschönau (Gross-Schönau) 1737–1806 Dresden)
- Date
- 1779 (?)
- Medium
- Brush and gray ink, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink, not by the artist; verso: black chalk
- Dimensions
- sheet: 8 3/8 x 12 7/8 in. (21.2 x 32.7 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, PECO Foundation Gift, 2011
- Accession no.
- 2011.251a, b
Provenance
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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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00023309
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