The Medici Vase
Unknown artist
1600–1799
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Primary suppport: 34.2 × 26.6 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 39 × 30.7 cm (15 3/8 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk sticksinkpen and ink drawingswashprints and drawinginorganic materialcoating (material)paper (fiber product)
About
This ancient marble vase—depicted by an unknown artist working in Italy—was owned by the Medici family and became a popular work for draftsmen to copy. Stefano della Bella made a famous etching after the same piece (1972.776).
