Wall painting on black ground: supports with entablature, from the imp

A large gallery room with dark walls painted in faint architectural framing, including vertical supports and gilded bands, above a deep red lower dado. A small figure stands on a plinth at the center, with a floor grate in the foreground. The scene is a museum reconstruction of the Boscotrecase room, lit from above.

Look closer: A small framed panel with a faint figure sits on the back wall, partly hidden in shadow.

Artist

Unknown

Date

last decade of the 1st century BCE

Medium

Fresco

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2000 × 1333 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1920