Design for a Funerary Monument or Epitaph with Mourning Figures

A tall, narrow design for a funerary monument, drawn in brown wash over pen and chalk. Smoking vessels crown the top tier, while a winged figure with a trumpet and a kneeling mourner sit above a large urn. Two seated mourners, one holding a lamp, flank the base beside a draped cloth.

Look closer: A small oil lamp sits at the lower left beside the seated mourner.

Artist

Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

Date

18th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1762 × 3938 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952