Apollo or Orpheus surrounded by Animals

A seated, draped male figure plays a large harp while animals gather around him: a deer and dogs crowd the right and lower foreground, and a small creature rests among the rocks. The sketch is worked in soft graphite lines on pale paper, with loose shading on the ground and figure.

Look closer: A small animal, possibly a rabbit or hare, lies low among the rocks at the bottom edge.

Artist

Anonymous, French, 16th century

Date

Medium

Graphite

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

744 × 1176 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947