Christ in Limbo
Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014
Catalogue
- Year
- 1542
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 5/8 in. (36.8 × 27 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Luca Penni
Artist
Luca Penni (c.1500/1504–1556) was an Italian painter of the 16th century, best known for his work in France as part of the First School of Fontainebleau. He was nicknamed Le Romain.
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The Calumny of Apelles
1560 · engraving
The Lamentation
1540 · Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on buff laid paper, squared in graphite, laid down on ivory laid paper
The Adoration of the Magi
1540 · etching
Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist
1540 · Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper; later additions of brown ink
The Judgment of Paris
1540 · etching
The Temptation of Eve
1535 · etching
Record
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- Luca Penni
- Year
- 1542
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 5/8 in. (36.8 × 27 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1542-330685
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified