Design for a nautilus cup with Neptune riding a Hippocampus

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Stijn Alsteens, Drawings and Prints curator and “Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry” co-curator, discusses the exhibition’s stunning array of drawings: http://met.org/1BxjuQO‪#‎tapestrytuesday‬

Designed by Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Netherlandish, 1502–1550) | Design for a nautilus cup with Neptune riding a Hippocampus | ca. 1535 - 1540 | Kunstsammlungen Der Fuersten von Waldburg-Wolfegg, Schloss Wolfegg