Two Nymphs Carrying a Third

Provenance

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Artist: Francesco Primaticcio (Italian, Bologna 1504/5–1570 Paris)
Date: ca. 1547
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, traces of white corrections. Black chalk shading probably added by a later hand.
Dimensions: 9 1/8 x 11 in. (23.2 x 27.9 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession no.: 1975.1.412

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