The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paradise

Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari)

1565–77

Attribution

Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1540/42–1609 Ancona

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolor, gouache, highlighted with white gouache, left and central sections squared in red chalk, on three sheets of brown paper, joined vertically. A piece of brown paper with figures of Christ, the Virgin, and St. John the Baptist, measuring 14.0 x 24.0 cm., has been affixed at the center of the drawing.

Physical dimensions

15 7/8 × 44 13/16 in. (40.3 × 113.8 cm)

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1961