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Recto: Angel Playing a Lute and Profile of a Child’s Face
Verso: Angel Playing a Lyre
Artist:
Date:
16–17th century
Location:
Not on display
Century:
Media:
R: Black Chalk With Traces Of White Chalk On Laid Paper Onlaid To False Margins V: Black Chalkwith Traces Of White Chalk
Dimensions:
Image: 243 x 400 mm (9 9/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
Department:
Object Type:
Country:
Continent:
Europe
Provenance:
Joseph Green Cogswell (1786-1871); Mortimer L. Schiff (1877-1931); Moore S. Achenbach (1878-1963).
Accession Number:
1963.24.165r-v
Acquisition Date:
1963-04-09
Credit Line:
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Exhibition History:
Stanford University Library, 'Baroque', 1964.
Santa Barbara, University Art Galleries, Unversity of California, ‘Regional styles of drawing in Italy, 1600-1700’, 1977, no. 3 (cat. by A. Moir, note by B. Davis).
r: winged young person,seated,playing stringed instrument, head study at right
v: winged young person, seated, playing a small harp type of stringed instrument
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Moses presenting the tablets of the law to the people (16th–17th century)
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