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Putto Bending a Bow

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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
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Rogers Fund 1911
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Title: Putto Bending a Bow
Description:
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.

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