AT-00023822
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The Abduction of Helen
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati) (Italian, Castelnuovo di Garfagnana ca. 1520–ca. 1575 Venice)
- Date
- mid-16th century
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized), over traces of black chalk, on light blue paper.
- Dimensions
- 11 15/16 x 15 1/8 in. (30.3 x 38.4 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
- Accession no.
- 1975.1.405
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.
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