Temptation of Saint Anthony, drawing on green prepared paper

A pen and gray ink drawing heightened with white on green-gray paper shows a seated bearded hermit in a hooded robe surrounded by ghostly figures and small demons. Hooded women and a small figure crowd at left, while a winged creature and a tree-like dark form loom at right, with a distant village and burning structures in the background.

Artist

Jan Wellens de Cock

Date

ca. 1520

Medium

Pen, or point of the brush, and gray ink, heightened with white gouache, on green prepared paper; verso: pen and brown ink

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1866 × 1430 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971