Sheet with multiple Designs: Figurative Scene with Two Women (top) and Two Satyrs Playing Horns, Seated Back to Back (bottom) (recto); Three Candelabra Grotesques (verso)
ca. 1545–60
Pen and dark brown ink (recto). On off-white paper. Pen and dark brown ink (verso)
33.7 × 22.9 cm (13.3 × 9 in)
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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026
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