The Eritrean Sibyl; from "Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel"

An engraved print of a seated woman in a long draped robe, her head turned and her hand raised, enthroned beneath a coffered arch. Muscular nude figures recline in the spandrels, and a seated bearded man and a bearded man in profile occupy the lower corners, with a standing nude figure at center.

Look closer: A small seated figure with a child beside the bearded man in the lower left corner.

Artist

Giorgio Ghisi

Date

1570–75

Medium

Engraving; first state of five

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2884 × 3745 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Goodwin M. Breinin, 1995