The Seated Saint Augustine (Cartoon for a Painting)
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Artwork Details
- Title: The Seated Saint Augustine (Cartoon for a Painting)
- Artist: Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) (Italian, Città della Pieve, active by 1469–died 1523 Fontignano)
- Date: ca. 1500
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and pale brown wash, with underdrawing and overdrawing in black chalk; traces of a vertical axis line in black chalk; outlines pricked and rubbed with pouncing dust for transfer, silhouetted closely along the figure and mounted on secondary paper support
- Dimensions: 16 9/16 × 9 13/16 in. (42.1 × 24.9 cm)
Framed: 27 15/16 × 22 1/16 × 1 15/16 in. (71 × 56 × 5 cm) - Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (KdZ 5070)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints