Title: Perseus Beheading Medusa (recto); Studies of a Child and Ornament Sketches (verso)
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1560–1609
Artist:  Annibale Carracci 
Artist bio: Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk or charcoal, scribbles in a darker brown ink at upper right (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (verso)
Dimensions: sheet: 5 1/16 x 9 7/16 in. (12.8 x 24 cm) maximum, arch-shaped
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1962
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Ornament, term: Children, term: Medusa, term: Perseus