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Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

ca. 1550
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
  • Artist: Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1529–1566 Rome)
  • Date: ca. 1550
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on blue paper; traces of framing lines in pen and brown ink along upper and right borders
  • Dimensions: sheet: 5 3/16 x 4 7/16 in. (13.2 x 11.2 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of John and Alice Steiner, 2003
  • Object Number: 2004.350.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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