Putto Bending a Bow

Giorgione

Date

1477/78–1510

Type

Drawing

Medium

Red chalk. Original sheet, 15.7 x 6.6 cm.; this has been made up (almost certainly by Pierre-Jean Mariette) to a sheet 23.7 x 15.2 cm. on which a base and a surrounding niche for the putto have been indicated in pen and brown ink, red chalk and brush and red wash

Department

Drawings and Prints

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

11.66.5

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1911