Three Muses seated below a flying putto who grasps a lyre with both hands, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau
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- Title: Three Muses seated below a flying putto who grasps a lyre with both hands, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau
- Series/Portfolio: Eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau
- Artist: Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, Mantua ca. 1520–1582 Mantua)
- Artist: After Francesco Primaticcio (Italian, Bologna 1504/5–1570 Paris)
- Date: ca. 1560–69
- Medium: Engraving
- Dimensions: sheet: 11 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. (29.2 x 16.9 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
- Object Number: 2012.136.105
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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