Title: Bust profile portrait of Catherine de' Medici in an ornamented frame, from "Portraits of some princes and illustrious people" (Ritratti di alcuni prencipi, et huomini illustri; also titled Imagines quorundam principum et illustrium virorum)
Object type: Print; Ornament & Architecture
Date: 1567
Portfolio: Portraits of some princes and illustrious people (Ritratti di alcuni prencipi, et huomini illustri; also titled Imagines quorundam principum et illustrium virorum)
Artist:  Nicolò Nelli 
Artist bio: Italian, active Venice, ca. 1552–79
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: plate: 6 15/16 x 5 3/16 in. (17.6 x 13.2 cm)
sheet: 8 11/16 x 6 9/16 in. (22 x 16.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Queens, term: Profiles