Design for a Circular Border with Nine Female Figures (the Muses?)
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Luca Penni
Artist bio: Italian, Florence 1500/1504–1557 Paris
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1525–35
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; circular outlines done with compass, and the paper is sectioned into five fragments.
Dimensions: each sheet approx.: 4 x 7 in. (10.2 x 17.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession year: 1959
Tags: Musical Instruments|Women|Playing|Reading