Title: An Antique Sacrificial Scene (recto); Sketch of a Group of People (verso)
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1779 (?)
Artist:  Johann Eleazar Zeissig, called Schenau 
Artist bio: German, Grossschönau (Gross-Schönau) 1737–1806 Dresden
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Brush and gray ink, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink, not by the artist; verso: black chalk
Dimensions: sheet: 8 3/8 x 12 7/8 in. (21.2 x 32.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, PECO Foundation Gift, 2011
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Suffering, term: Men, term: Women