The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Robert Lehman Collection
A Bearded Monk Showing a Portable Altar to a Praying Child, with an Old Woman Kneeling
Pietro Antonio Novelli
- Date
- mid-18th–early 19th century
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, wash
- Dimensions
- 10 1/4 x 7 11/16 in. (26 x 19.5 cm)
- Object type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Object number
- 1975.1.390
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Artist information
Italian, Venice 1729–1804 Venice
Subjects and terms
- Altars
- Children
- Men
- Women
- Monks
The Met object ID 459654. 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.