About the Artwork
Design for a Ceiling with Bacchic Motifs, Leopards and Vine Scrolls
ca. 1770
Michelangelo Pergolesi
1740-1801
Italian
Unknown
Brush and watercolor over a preliminary drawing in graphite on double thickness of buff laid paper
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 3/8 inches (26.4 × 36.5 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
62.5
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower left: Original old drawing by. Pergolesi Inscribed, in pencil, center lower margin: Roman Painting [Paving?] Inscribed, right lower margin: 184/2 Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, left upper margin: N° 15 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right corner: 5 [backwards] Inscribed, lower left corner: 2/6; 586 [in circle] Inscribed, across center: A Roman Pavement [?]
Watermark: [indecipherable]
Provenance
Este Gallery (New York, New York, USA)
1962-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Harris, John. A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture, and Landscape Gardening 1500-1900 in American Collections. Upper Saddle River, 1971 p. 158 (pl. 114).
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 122-123, no. 59.
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Michelangelo Pergolesi, Design for a Ceiling with Bacchic Motifs, Leopards and Vine Scrolls, ca. 1770, brush and watercolor over a preliminary drawing in graphite on double thickness of buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 62.5.
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