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Ceiling Composition with Figures of Abundance and Hercules with the Hydra
1604
Bartolomeo Schidone (Artist) Italian, 1578-1615 (Artist) Italian
Pen and black and brown ink with reddish brown wash, heightened with white, on toned laid paper
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 11 7/16 inches (41.9 × 29.1 cm)
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker
68.30
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Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on backing of sheet, lower right corner: Lanfranco [partially erased] Inscribed, on backing of sheet, lower center: Guido Inscribed, on backing of sheet, verso, upper right corner: 12
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker (Detroit, Michigan, USA) (as by Giovanni Lafranco)
1968-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 290-291, no. A35.
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Italian; after Bartolomeo Schidone, Ceiling Composition with Figures of Abundance and Hercules with the Hydra, 1604, pen and black and brown ink with reddish brown wash, heightened with white, on toned laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker, 68.30.
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