View of the Column of Marcus Aurelius

A pen and wash drawing framed by a stone arch with carved medallions and relief sculpture above. Through the arch, a tall fluted column topped by a statue stands in a sunlit piazza flanked by palazzo facades, with small figures in the foreground.

Look closer: Two small roundel portraits in relief sit at the top of the image, one above each side of the cornice.

Artist

Jan Goeree

Date

before 1704

Medium

Red chalk, brush and gray wash, pen and black ink, over traces of black chalk; partially squared in red chalk

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2491 × 3882 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Helen and János Scholz, 1958