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Artist: Pietro da Cortona (1596 - 1669) (12)

Period: 17th century (3591)

Type: ink (2963)

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

Design for a frieze with classical figures

Circa 1638-41

Artist
Pietro Paolo Baldini (ca. 1605 - 1650)

Formerly attributed to Pietro da Cortona (1596 - 1669)

Height: 18.8 cm; Width: 37.8 cm (slightly irregular);

Inscription
Inscription, #4 [?]
Inscription, 6 8
Inscription
Inscription, Pietro da Cortona
Inscription, palmi 26 in tutto. / La meta cio che nosi comprende nel ornamenta del'Istoria //
Collector's mark, collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson, the younger (L.2170)
Inscription, O222 / Decorative drawing / Pietro da Cortona //
Collector's mark, collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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

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