Title: The Departure of Aeneas Announced to Dido?
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1624–63
Artist:  Francesco Allegrini 
Artist bio: Italian, Cantiano (?) 1615/20–after 1679 Gubbio (?)
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in red chalk
Dimensions: 3-1/4 x 4-5/8 in.  (8.3 x 11.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Women, term: Aeneas