Adoration of the Magi
This drawing of elegant figures worshipping the Virgin and Child set amidst the ruins of antiquity was once attributed to Lucas van Leyden (1489/94-1533), hence the L added later to the architectural base at the lower right.
Artwork Details
- Title: Adoration of the Magi
- Artist: Flemish , first quarter of the sixteenth century
- Date: first quarter 16th century
- Culture: Flemish, Antwerp
- Medium: Pen and light brown and grayish brown ink over traces of black chalk; original borderline all around.
- Dimensions: 11 x 7 15/16 in. (28 x 20.2 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
- Object Number: 1975.1.832
- Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection
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