- Material / technique
- Brush-drawn ink on paper
- Attribution / role
- See the museum attribution
- Collection / source
- The Met / loan from Ashmolean Museum
Artwork notes
An early signed and dated exercise, not an original invention of the subject.
Materials, marks and colour
Artist-wide context; individual works may differ.
Media and surface
Brush-drawn ink and opaque watercolour allow both sensitive modelling and very fine detail.
Marks and structure
Careful outlines can retain the flat page while small tonal shifts build volume.
Palette and light
Gold grounds and observed natural colour belong to different kinds of commission.