Title: Allegory of the Transience of Life
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1618
Artist:  Christian Richter 
Artist bio: German, Altenburg ca. 1585/90–1667 Weimar
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and ink, brush and brown, blue and pink wash, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions: sheet: 5 x 5 15/16 in. (12.7 x 15.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2007
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Human Figures, term: Towers