Four Evangelists

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Domenico Beccafumi, called Il Mecarino

Title

Four Evangelists

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1542–1546

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over red chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "Domenico Beccafumi detto Macherino da Siena / scudi 120"

Dimensions

23 × 18.7 cm (9 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Benjamin F. Stein

Reference Number

1960.358

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