AT-00023600
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The Discovery of Glass
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Maria Butteri (Italian, Florence, ca. 1540–1606/8 Florence)
- Date
- ca. 1570–72
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk; stylus-ruled construction
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11 9/16 × 8 7/16 in. (29.3 × 21.5 cm) maximum (an oval shape but with upper two corners cut)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation Gift, in memory of Jeffrey P. Klein, and Carolyn H. Specht Gift, 2013
- Accession no.
- 2013.151
Provenance
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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-00023600
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