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Study of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian, Milan (?) 1527?–1593 Milan)
1564–65
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush with pale brown and purple wash, over soft black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, some sketches over black chalk (verso)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 13-13/16 x 10-3/8 in. (35.1 x 26.3 cm)
- Culture
- Italian
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1995
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
