Page from a Sketchbook Depicting a City under Siege and a Scene of Homage(?) (recto); standing figures and a horseman; male and female figures; a battle scene (verso)
1520s
Pen and brown ink; at the top, traces of a sketch in red chalk (recto); Pen and light brown ink, some of the figures redrawn by the same hand in dark brown ink (verso)
21.8 × 14.7 cm (8.6 × 5.8 in)
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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026
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