Title: The Nine Pierides Transformed into Magpies after Their Unsuccessful Competition with the Muses (Ovid, Metamorphoses, V, 294 ff.)
Object type: Drawing
Date: n.d.
Artist:  Antoine Dieu 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1662–1727 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Red chalk, red and gray wash, framing lines in pen and brown ink.
Dimensions: 10 11/16 x 8 3/4 in.  (27.1 x 22.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1969
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Muses