Currently not on view
Opening of a Tomb (?) with Mourning Figures
Pirro Ligorio, Naples ca. 1513–1583 Ferrara
x1983-1
Information
Title
Opening of a Tomb (?) with Mourning Figures
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on light brown paper, mounted down
Dimensions
27.2 × 37 cm. (10 11/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, with funds given by Mrs. George Gibbons
Object Number
x1983-1
Inscription
Inscribed verso on mount, bottom center, in graphite:
Maturino
Culture
Type
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1983," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 43, no. 1 (1984): p. 18-42., p. 35
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)
