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Period: 17th century (5013)

Type: ink (2963)

Style: Italian (1743)

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bucrania (5) | designs (344) | fauns (66) | festoons (117) | frames (33) | friezes (ornamental bands) (394) | putti (630) | sphinxes (38)

Design for a frieze with classical figures

17th century

Artists
Baldini, Pietro Paolo    more

Formerly attributed to Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (1596-1669)

Pen and ink on paper

height: 18.8 cm; width: 37.8 cm (slightly irregular)

Inscription
Inscribed, pen and ink, lower, recto, ... P 26 in tutto ... / La meta' cio che nosi comprende nel ornamento del ...
Stamped, ink, lower right, recto, collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson the Younger, Lugt 2170

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.4188

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