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1938

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Drawing, Design for a Ceiling Painting, Venus, Cupid, and Putti

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Marc Antonio Franceschini. It is dated 1700–29 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and black wash, charcoal on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

31.6 × 21.5 cm (12 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: three crescents over backwards S form

It is signed

Signed in pen and ink, lower left: Franceschini Bologniese

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, lower right: D.5; verso: No. 220 / g. 120 [struck out]

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Ceiling Painting, Venus, Cupid, and Putti; Designed by Marc Antonio Franceschini (Italian, 1648 – 1729); Italy; pen and ink, brush and black wash, charcoal on paper; 31.6 × 21.5 cm (12 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-6430

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