Drawing, Design for a Ceiling Painting

This is a Drawing. It was created by Lucio Massari. It is dated Before 1609 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and blue and white gouache, black chalk on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

25.4 × 25.2 cm (10 in. × 9 15/16 in.)

It has the following markings

In the lower left corner of the verso is the mark of collector J. W. Nahl (died 1880), Lugt 1954.

It is inscribed

Written in ink, at the lower edge, in the 19th century: "Lucio Massari qui a peint à l'Eglise de la morte de Bologne voisine de St. Petronio." In the lower right corner, numbered in ink: "6." Inscribed on verso in black ink: "Lucio Massari f."; "[?] J. Burkart, Desden/10 Sqr (?) 6 Dec 48."

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