Allegory of Eternity

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Giorgio Vasari

Title

Allegory of Eternity

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1544–1545

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on blue laid paper, squared for transfer in red chalk

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, in pen and brown ink: E T E R N I T / A S

Dimensions

28.3 × 21.9 cm (11 3/16 × 8 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray

Reference Number

2019.871

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