A Sibyl reading a book facing left
Ugo da Carpi · after 1518
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What the record supports
Ugo da Carpi's "A Sibyl reading a book facing left" is a chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in brown, created after 1518. The sheet measures 10 3/4 × 8 3/4 in. (27.3 × 22.2 cm) and is classified as a print within the Drawings and Prints department.
The artist, Ugo da Carpi, was an Italian printmaker and painter, born in 1480 and died in 1532. No specific nationality is provided for him in the artist authority record.
The artwork's culture and provenance are not stated in the provided catalogue data. The piece was acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art via the Rogers Fund in 1919.
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