About the Artwork
Standing Putto with Cornucopia
between 1575 and 1600
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Italian
Italian
Red chalk on buff laid paper
Sheet: 6 7/8 × 4 1/8 inches (17.5 × 10.5 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR77
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Stamp, in black, lower right corner: Sir Joshua Reynolds (Lugt 2364)
Provenance
Sir Joshua Reynolds (London, England)
March 5, 1798, possibly Reynold's sale (London, England). March 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England). James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-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, p. 295, no. A41.
Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 2, p. 535, cat. 429 (ill.).
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Italian, Standing Putto with Cornucopia, between 1575 and 1600, red chalk on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR77.
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