![Architectural Capriccio with an Arcade and Fountain in Point Perspective [Study for a Painting of John the Baptist before Herod], by Hans Vredeman de Vries, ca. 1594–96](/thumbs/met/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP836399.jpg)
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Architectural Capriccio with an Arcade and Fountain in Point Perspective [Study for a Painting of John the Baptist before Herod]
Hans Vredeman de Vries (Netherlandish, Leeuwarden 1527–1606 (?) Antwerp (?))
ca. 1594–96
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with a gray wash over traces of black chalk, stylus and compass marks
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11 5/16 × 16 9/16 in. (28.8 × 42 cm)
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2014
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
