A Seated King in Armor (King David?)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Seated King in Armor (King David?)

Orazio Samacchini

Date
16th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over possible traces of black chalk, squared in red chalk; glued onto secondary paper support.
Dimensions
15 x 9-1/8 in. (38.1 x 23.2 cm)
Object type
Drawing
Classification
Drawings
Object number
60.66.11
Credit line
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960

Artist information

Italian, Bologna 1532–1577 Bologna

Subjects and terms

  • Armor
  • Kings

The Met object ID 341613. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.