Title: Diogenes, seated before his barrel, reading from a book, a plucked hen standing behind him at right
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1527–30
Artist:  Ugo da Carpi 
Artist bio: Italian, Carpi ca. 1480–1532 Bologna
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in gray-green ink
Dimensions: Image: 18 11/16 x 13 5/8 in. (47.5 x 34.6 cm)
Mount: 28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Chickens, term: Diogenes, term: Reading